Race allows humanity to keep inventing, in language that can bend the most rational minds, groups of people whose supposed characteristics justify wh… - Adam Serwer

Memorial Day has the tendency to conjure up old arguments about the Civil War. That’s understandable; it was created to mourn the dead of a war in which the Union was nearly destroyed, when half the country rose up in rebellion in defense of slavery. (p20 "The Myth of Kindly General Lee")

On the one hand it's a lovely symbolism that the Dem slate in Georgia represents the old school civil rights coalition between black people and Jews. On the other, it's telling that the exact same tropes from then are being used by the gop in 2020

there are more axes of difference beyond the Left-Right worth exploring, and in some ways, political journalism does not always acknowledge those.