My father explained to Martin that his best friend in the town, a boy a year younger, was the son of the Klan leader. He told Martin that they were going to talk to the man. “I was sort of excited and paralyzed at the same time,” Martin recalled when I talked to him about it on Friday. Every day, President Trump teaches us what values we cherish — and they’re the opposite of his. Donald Trump has shown a fatal inability to listen to his better angels and stay on the side of the angels.

Source: New York Times August 19, 2017 18:22 UTC