STILL SMUG AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

Jim Sleeper, a lecturer in political science at Yale University, argues that it’s not (all) about race, it's about (conservative) fear and loathing.

The mistake of crying racism is especially tempting to upscale, influential liberals who, no less than protesters on the right, are ducking the true causes of dispossession, fear and rage: the premises and practices of financial capital, predatory consumer marketing and a national-security state boondoggling.

After all these years, liberals are still smug in their certainty that there can't possibly be principled opposition to their plans and programs.