Tuesday is interesting apart from the "moral outrage" over his remarks and his insistence of arguing for moral equivalence and violence from both sides. 

(1) Brooks covers the safe "presidential play" that even with the "Peanuts" trick applied was probably his best option. 

(2) Then again, he won arguably by refusing to play the "Peanuts" trick in the first place. His appeal was always that by refusing to back down; he set himself apart from the political establishment; turned their hysteria / outrage into a mirror on how their politics are even disliked more by a significant base.  

(3) His real serious blunder (fatal?) was to double down on the "good people on both sides"; instead of perhaps "violence by both sides" when going the venting route with the "Peanuts trick" frustration. 

Where this could have worked well in terms of reflecting the media's double standards and obsession with painting him as a Nazi - he now sits with a very real problem of walking this back...