Seriously?
Here he writes a column in which he includes the following passage: "...our Founders' purpose (to create) a representative form of national authority robust enough to secure the public good", and completely subverts the history of the US Constitution as being primarily a document which was framed to limit what the federal government could do. A "robust national authority"?? Good grief! (Don't even get me started on Dionne's insane phrase, "national authority".)
No, the lefty scumbag Dionne is not now, nor has he ever been, particularly "intelligent".
FRegards,
LH
Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other. — President John Adams
The Constitution did both. Have you ever read the Preamble?