First, she renovated the Rose Garden. Then, Melania spruced up her husband.

Night two of the Republican National Convention felt like whiplash. The American Carnage ethos of Monday was replaced by a slicker evening of programming that attempted to sand down the coarse edges of Trumpism.

Monday night felt a bit like the scene in A Clockwork Orange when Alex, the subject of an experimental behavioral therapy, had his eyelids clamped open while he was forced to watch violent movies. With all of the talk of rioters taking over American cities and suburbs and Democrats bent on transforming the country into a...