I worry that we are seeing the emergence of a new kind of Democratic Trumpism.

If there is one political skill the Trump White House has proven to be consistently good at, it's triangulation.

And white Americans are some of the most stubbornly ignorant and callous people on the planet. They really make it easy for the fascists. They want to be led. They'll go along with anything they think will maintain their privileges.

Days before this kicked off the big story was how the presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee was defining blackness as support for his candidacy.

Now we have mainstream Democratic politicians and journalists calling Americans involved in a nationwide uprising that followed a particularly brazen police lynching "outside agitators" and "domestic terrorists." This does not bode well for ordinary people.