John Danforth wants you to know he’s very concerned about this Trump fellow. Last week, the former U.S. senator called Trump the “most divisive president in our history.”Opining in the Washington Post, Danforth encouraged his fellow Republicans to dissociate themselves from Trump, comparing him to the segregationist George Wallace.
Pundit Mark Halperin declared the op-ed “extraordinary.” In fact, it was a perfectly ordinary example of Danforth taking a safe position within the soft sheets of a major newspaper’s opinion page.…