“I’m very angry about this war,” said Gavin Newsom, the California Governor, on stage yesterday. Newsom has a memoir, Young Man in a Hurry, to plug, and a serious bid for the presidency in the offing. Like many other ambitious Democrats, he spies in Donald Trump’s new war an opportunity to cause grave damage to the Republicans in November’s midterms – and in the 2028 presidential election, too. 

“Six Americans dead, including a young man from Sacramento,” he said, beating his chest in a nauseatingly theatrical manner. “You have a President who still cannot explain the rationale. Why now, and what’s the endgame?”Operation Epic Fury, now into its sixth day, has united Democratic politicians in their condemnations of President Trump. At the same time, leading Democrats, such as Newsom and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, his putative rival for the party’s presidential nomination in 2028, have taken care to emphasize that their........

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