No room for forgiveness

Trump taking the stage a few minutes after Kirk’s wife. — Loren Elliott/The New York Times

AS tens of thousands of Americans mourned conservative activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump made a seemingly unscripted remark that sum­med up the retribution campaign that has come to define his second term.

“I hate my opponent,” Trump told the crowd at the memorial in Arizona, “and I don’t want the best for them.”