Wall St. Journal pays tribute to couple slain by the son they worked hard to bring around in a lifetime of addiction.

President Trump got caught up in the story, blaming the couple’s politics, as if to say they got what was coming to them.

Secondary story this, his ill-timed, misguided comment, a case I say, of giving way to a Satanic urge, by one who has dealt stoically with an amazing list of harsh commentary and attacks on his physical well-being.

Great day for Satan, Cardinal Newman would have said.

. . . to give ourselves only to this or that commandment, is to incline our minds in a wrong direction, and at length to pull them down to the earth, which is the aim of our adversary, the Devil.

Something else. Drug slavery is at the heart of this parental slaughter, and freedom from drug slavery is at the heart of President Trump’s closing down the border invasion and more recently hijacking delivery boats, indeed having them blown out of the water.

More than any other president, or public official for that matter, he has taken steps to shoot down the trade that kills thousands and/or leads addicts to kill their loved ones.

The president’s blaming the dead or seen as such for how they felt about him, bizarre as it was, oddly enough might be seen as referring in part at least to his crusade against killer drugs.

Either way, we have in this episode not only the horror of the son’s insane reaction to loving parents but also a case in point of the deadliness of the enemy that threatens the nation, what the president has recognized and seeks to thwart.