THE TACTIC MIGHT WORK WELL ENOUGH.

Two years ago, Michael Barone called out the foolishness of fact-checkers letting the self-styled progressives get away with hyperbole during campaigns, who really weren't firing up their oppressed communities.

Maybe instead they're virtue signaling to the white college graduates who are the dominant segment of the Democratic electorate these days. What "sounds like an exclusive appeal to minority voters," writes the New York Post's Michael Goodwin, is "just as likely to be aimed at those whites embarrassed by their race."

Enough changed in two years that the virtue-signalling, and the denunciation of the police, might still be a winning issue, never mind the reprise of the Carter years that seems to be taking place as I write.