The Trump presidency will be bookended by two violent explosions of racial animus. In some ways, the true start of his presidency, which set the tone for everything that followed — the racist appeals, the refusals to take responsibility, the selective condemnation of violence, the spinelessness of his party — was Charlottesville. A president who sides with “very fine” people, a.k.a. neo-Nazis, was one intent on destroying the prospect of multiracial, rational self-governance. The presidency ends — we pray — with the explosion of violence triggered by a Minneapolis police officer’s killing of George Floyd.