Wrong again - America’s enemy within

IT is a moot point whether President Donald Trump understands that his refusal to explicitly condemn the role of white supremacists in weekend clashes in Charlottesville could be seen as a tacit expression of, to borrow a phrase from another never-ending racial conflict, his parity of esteem for the conflicting causes.

If that subtlety escapes him, he is the first American president in living memory unable to condemn, in the plainest terms, the old bigotry that has been such a cancer in his country’s history.