Somewhere, John C. Calhoun is smiling Haughtiness is a bad look for anyone. Worse still for the insecure who spend a lifetime propping up their self-esteem — for the entitled rich, with conspicuous consumption; for the less “endowed” (materially or intellectually), with boasting and false bravado; for a certain indicted ex-president, with both. For example, Tennessee GOP state Rep. Andrew Farmer’s dressing-down of fellow Rep. Justin J. Pearson last week before the body’s vote to expel him. Farmer didn’t utter the word “boy” in his speech. His tone spoke it loudly enough for the entire world to hear. Then the GOP majority in the Tennessee House voted to void the elections won by Black Democrats in two of the state’s districts. In Texas on Saturday. GOP Gov. Greg Abbott declared he would with all haste work to pardon Daniel S. Perry, convicted on Friday by a Travis County jury for the murder of Garrett Foster at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Austin in 2020: “Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney,” Mr. Abbott wrote on Twitter. Nullification. Now where have you heard that word before? In Abbott’s mind, Perry (who is white) had a right to self-defense. Foster (a BLM supporter) had none. Damn the law. The findings of the jury do not matter. John C. Calhoun couldn’t have said it better. The potential pardon of Mr. Perry threatens to undermine the Travis…