Ramesh Ponnuru: Furor over Trump’s ‘animals’ remark misses point

One of the oddities of our political moment is how frequently we are asked to tease out the layers of meaning of remarks by President Donald Trump as though he had chosen them with the care of a good poet. The latest controversy — although by the time this appears it may have been overtaken by another one — concerns the president’s comment, “These aren’t people. They’re animals.”The New York Times and USA Today were among the media outlets that suggested