Michael Barone writes at the Washington Examiner about the evils of identity politics. I know we've been somewhat obsessive about the subject recently, but it is both current and important.
Barone does the subject justice, showing how Obama's comments following the police shooting in Dallas were as tone-deaf as Trump's following Charlottesville. Both were accused, perhaps fairly, of sending a dog-whistle to extremists on their opposite sides of the divide.
