by Mani Foroohar

About the author: Mani Foroohar is a student at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a contributing editor to the Daily Bruin, the campus newspaper.

Everyone knows the parable of the emperor with no clothes. The significance of a child being the one to point out the emperor’s nudity, as opposed to a sermonizing preacher or self-righteous intellectual, is simple to understand. Neither morality nor logic was responsible for stripping the emperor’s veil of falsehood. All it took was the truth.

One can’t help but think of this when considering Gary Johnson, the Republican governor of New Mexico, who, despite pressure from power brokers at the top of his own party, has proclaimed that the emperor that is this country’s war on...