The Week

• Planned Parenthood is clearly worried that this story has legs ($22/lb.).

• Telling a pollster you support Donald Trump, for some large percentage of those who do, is a way of telling all the forces of respectability to go to hell. A lot of Republicans think elected officials should be told more often that they are “morons,” and that our leaders should evidence some righteous anger about illegal immigration. Trump obliges on both counts, and it has won him the temporary support of a fifth of Republican voters. It seems highly unlikely, though, that the party will in the end choose a man who has never been elected to anything, has gone bankrupt multiple times, and does not appear to have believed anything Republicans believe until just yesterday. The other candidates should not panic, mock his supporters, or descend to his frequently boorish level. Some Republicans are worried that Donald Trump will go third party and hand the election to Hillary Clinton. But they can reduce that risk. Trump boasts over and over about what a winner he is. If someone else wins the Republican primaries fair and square, his support will dwindle — and he will look like a sore loser if he tries to run anyway. If Republicans give him a good case that they are treating him unfairly, he will have an easy excuse for skipping the primaries and going straight to the general election. That’s a good reason to treat him fairly: Let him make his case, and trust the voters.