This is the moment for Donald Trump’s motor mouth

Here are some of the many insults that Donald Trump has ladled out over the years. On Senator John McCain: ‘He’s not a war hero.’ On Senator Rand Paul: ‘I never attacked his looks, and believe me, there’s plenty of subject matter right there.’ On Jeb Bush: ‘He’s an embarrassment to his family.’ On Jeb Bush’s family: ‘Do we really need another Bush in the White House—we have had enough of them.’ On Hillary Clinton: ‘Such a nasty woman.’ On Rosie O’Donnell: ‘I’d like to take some money out of her fat-ass pockets.’ On Barack Obama: ‘He’s the founder of Isis.’

Yet Trump’s response to last weekend’s racist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia—an idiots’ Woodstock of warmed-over Ku Klux Klan bigots, arm-thrusting neo-Nazis, historically illiterate neo-Confederates, and trolls who crunch on bugs in the darkest corners of the Internet; a target for mockery if ever there was one—was uncharacteristically passive. He began by denouncing the ‘hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides‘. This was condemned by some pundits as a cop-out, but it was nothing of the sort: black-masked ‘antifa’ demonstrators in Portland, Oregon and elsewhere have been smashing