I was sitting at the bar at Morton’s in West Palm Beach when I saw them reporting Hillary Clinton’s “alt-right” speech. I knew, from the faces of the CNN operatives with bylines and the chyron on the bottom of the screen, that this was serious, and that Hillary was finally putting away her racist fascist opponent. But is this really a good idea, making Trump the Racist a headline issue? Isn’t the time-tested way of race politics that you paint Donald Trump as a racist with surrogates talking about his racism and local TV commercials dragging African Americans behind pickup trucks? The beauty of time-tested race politics is that it is very hard to push back against it. Instead, we have candidate Hillary accusing Trump of being a racist directly. I’m no expert but it seems to me that the direct attack licenses Trump to do what he has already done, and say that the Democrats see racism everywhere they look. Hey, maybe there are even racists under...(Read Full Article)