Donald Trump Plays Nice

The problem with his comment on the Alabama protester wasn’t that it wasn’t “nice.” It was that it revealed a belief that the proper response to dissent is physical violence. And the problem with Mr. Trump’s entire campaign isn’t that he’s raw and unfiltered and over-the-top — “a little bit rough,” as he put it — but that he harbors racist and sexist ideas and panders to others with those ideas. For a reminder of what he actually stands for, look no further than an interview on Wednesday, in which he said that to combat terrorists, “you have to take out their families.”