Today’s Editors’ Choice

• Peggy Noonan: Rage Is All the Rage, and It’s Dangerous
• Ken Blackwell: Regime Change in Iran Appears Increasingly Attainable
• E. Calvin Beisner: You’re ‘Still In’? Too Bad for You. We’re Out.

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Opinion in Brief

Peggy Noonan: “We have been seeing a generation of media figures cratering under the historical pressure of Donald Trump. He really is powerful. They’re losing their heads. Now would be a good time to regain them. They have been making the whole political scene lower, grubbier. They are showing the young what otherwise estimable adults do under pressure, which is lose their equilibrium, their knowledge of themselves as public figures, as therefore examples — tone setters. … Rage and sanctimony always spread like a virus, and become stronger with each iteration. And it’s no good, no excuse, to say Trump did it first, he lowered the tone, it’s his fault. Your response to his low character is to lower your own character? He talks bad so you do? You let him destabilize you like this? You are making a testimony to his power. So many of our media figures need at this point to be reminded: You belong to something. It’s called: us. Do your part, take it down some notches, cool it. We have responsibilities to each other.”