Kevin Drum is a liberal blogger but is always worth a read. He was with Mother Jones. He now appears to be on his own with his Jabberwocky blog.

Claims that voter ID laws are racist are false. Most voters actually support voter ID requirements, and these reforms are helpful for safe elections.

It is striking to see how quickly our media has racialized the narrative of the horrific murders at the Georgia massage parlors. From what we know so far, the alleged murderer was a young man tormented by his compulsive sexual desires.

With reparations, there is the issue of who pays. Do African countries owe reparations to Black Americans? After all, Harvard’s director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Henry Louis Gates, wrote that 90% of those enslaved and shipped to the New World were sold by Africans to European slavers. All whites?…

While the Democratic Party pulled off a complete (albeit narrow) victory over Donald Trump and the Republican Party in 2020, they lost ground with nonwhite voters—despite significantly raising the salience of racial justice issues during the campaign.

President Biden preaches unity but practices division. Witness his “Executive ­Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government,” part of an unprecedented barrage of such orders. It calls for “an ­ambitious whole-of-government equity agenda” that smacks of a Great Society for identity politics.

A new religion is preached across America. It’s nonsense posing as wisdom.

In 2020, every major institution in the United States — including social-media platforms, sports leagues, universities, Hollywood, and major corporations — pledged their allegiance to the “Black Lives Matter” movement.

Tucker Carlson on President-elect Joe Biden picking “certain jobs for certain identities” in his presentations of his administration picks. Carlson said if you really want to flatten the social structure, you’d want a return to meritocracy. Source: Tucker Carlson: Certain Jobs For Certain Identities, How Is This Better Than Jim Crow? | Video | RealClearPolitics

Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina gave a remarkable speech at this year’s Republican National Convention. Yes, here was a black man at a GOP event, so there was a whiff of identity politics. When we see color these days, we expect ideology to follow. But Mr. Scott’s charisma that night was simply that he spoke as a person, not...