Our growing embrace of English wasn’t the only thing S.I. Hayakawa and his crew were wrong about. All the kumbaya they insisted would happen if English was elevated in California unsurprisingly turned out to be a bunch of — excuse my Spanish — caca.

President Trump’s executive order puts his “America first” stamp onto the nation’s speech. But the effect might be muted.

It rescinds a federal mandate that requires agencies and other recipients of federal funding to provide language assistance to non-English speakers.