Acts unbecoming

Published April 19, 2016 4:03am ET



Google the words “Donald Trump violence” on any day recently, and you are likely to get in the neighborhood of 68,100,000 results. That’s 68 MILLION, and they’re all about Trump and his doings. Google the word “violence” with “Bernie Sanders,” “Ted Cruz,” and “Marco Rubio” and you also get millions of references, but they all refer not to what they did exactly, but to things that they said about Trump.

Google the words “George Wallace violence” and you get 11,000,000 results, which is remarkable as the Internet didn’t exist in 1968-72 when Wallace was running for president. But most of these entries tend to be recent, and are comparisons of Wallace to Trump. This year, more than 20 people in both major parties started out running for president, and 19 of them were never compared to the bigot and demagogue.

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