The Memo: Strife turns up heat on Trump

The gravest civil unrest in half a century is piling pressure on a president who has usually been more adept at exploiting America’s divisions than healing them.

Protests sparked by the death of George Floyd a week ago in Minneapolis have touched at least 75 cities.

Throughout the weekend, cable news broadcasts showed near-constant footage of disorder. Viewers saw gratuitously aggressive policing, nihilistic vandalism on the part of some protesters and everything in between. Continue reading.