President Trump has taken a morally and historically unacceptable position in saying his administration “will not even consider” the renaming of military bases now named after Confederate generals.

As he did by going out of the way to point out that there were also “very fine people” among the protesters at a neo-Nazi night-time rally that preceded violence in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, Trump needlessly has exacerbated racial tensions without a shred of right reason to guide him.