Ought to Sasse’s résumé have raised purple flags?

When The Lincoln Star profiled 17-year-old Ben Sasse in 1989, the story revealed the contours of a politically savvy younger conservative—a lot of which stays in place some 35 years later. Sasse—then a highschool athlete and treasurer of his church youth group—was recent off a stint as congressional web page in Washington, D.C. He advised…