President Trump’s character is no national secret. He is crude, sometimes brutal, and manifestly not what most people would call “presidential.” He admits as much himself. But he is not running for reelection in a vacuum. He is running against a man and, even more, against a party that are deeply flawed and dangerous.

When Joe Biden was asked to disavow this summer’s rash of left-wing urban violence, arson, and murder, he absurdly deflected blame for the riots to Trump and “right-wing militias.” This was telling; Biden preferred not to risk losing the support of a political Left that increasingly views violence as acceptable, and that is attempting to intimidate the nation with its “vandals’ veto” into voting for him.