"Asking voters to believe he’ll do better on these issues in a second term isn’t likely to turn many swing voters his way," the famously conservative editorial board wrote in a lengthy critique.

Peggy Noonan tells us that "we" -- everybody, not certain people more than others -- have fallen short recently and must do better.

The WSJ ed board doesn't really believe that the neo-Nazi right "alone are to blame for the violence" in Charlottesville.

Peggy Noonan opened a bleary eye and gasped. “They’ve found me again,” she murmured to the cardboard cutout of Ronald Wilson Reagan, the greatest president of the last half of the last century, maybe the greatest president ever, which was keeping guard over the head of her bed.