Often a Globe editorial strikes an untenable compromise between irreconcilable positions & subsides into an incoherent puddle.  Not so today, thankfully.

Yes, Trump may yet again survive what should be a fatal blunder.  However, the task of an editorial board is to forcibly note when a vital line is intentionally crossed; a line the intentional crossings of which clearly exposes a leader to be seriously flawed & unfit to lead or regain our respect.

Leaders like this often emerge in stressful & turbulent times & usually fall in short order.  The real worry is when a sizeable portion of the population is so angry that it is prepared to prolong the success of such flawed leadership.