President Donald Trump implied this week that he doesn’t consider domestic violence a crime. “Much lesser things — things that take place in the home — they call crime,” he complained on Monday. “If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime.”

Trump was lamenting that these “little fights” with “the wife” unfairly inflated the crime statistics in Washington after he deployed National Guard troops. But Trump’s comments shouldn’t be dismissed as just another 79-year-old elder with an old-school view.

He may have grown up in an era when survivors were expected to endure abuse alone without legal protections or community support, but decades of legal and cultural progress have now made domestic violence unacceptable.

I should know. My mother, Mary Louise Klas, was o

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