The old adage says that the wrong set of words can sometimes be lethal. Anyone who doubts this should consider the case of our 45th president, who was doing as well as expected in his speech about Charlottesville when he added, twice over, three little words to the text that his speechwriters had given him: “On many sides.”

No, Mr. President, there are no other ‘sides’ to a story in which people with the ideologies of the KKK and the late Nazi party adopt the tactics of ISIS terrorists and drive cars into crowds of people.