It was quite alarming last week when President Donald Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office and tried to indict “the radical left” — his usual term for the Democratic Party and all his other opponents — for his friend Charlie Kirk’s assassination . This was well before any information about the identity or motives of the suspected killer was publicly available. But even if the assassin had gone on television wearing a T-shirt that read, “I’m the radical left!” the attribution of widespread collective responsibility for an individual act of violence is rather obviously illegal and incendiary.

Then again, this was Donald Trump talking. He is incapable of (or uninterested in) editing himself in moments of great emotion, and he often treats the law as simply an impediment to w

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