A TALE OF TWO SHOOTINGS: Victor Davis Hanson compares the wildly differing BHO-DNC-MSM reactions to the deaths of Michael Brown and Kate Steinle and concludes:

President Obama apparently believes that because in the past people of color more inordinately were victims of police brutality and were more likely to die indifferently to the public, the corrective is not racially blind observations and disinterested commentary to ensure that everyone in a complex multiracial society is treated equitably. Rather, he feels a sort of reparations is necessary to “even the field” —  in that a person’s race or ethnic affiliation will trump facts in precisely the way he believes they once did in the past. Thus, 100 years ago, San Francisco would have gone ballistic over the murderer Sanchez and shrugged at Michael Brown’s death. In Obama’s universe, it is high time that someone at the highest levels of government shrugs at Kate Steinle’s murder and goes ballistic over Michael Brown’s death — facts in both cases be damned. The message counts, along with the political realities that follow from it.

Barack Obama is the most politically driven president since Richard Nixon and the most racially polarizing chief executive since Woodrow Wilson, whose combination of progressive politics and racialism (the former supposedly exempting the latter) in uncanny fashion he emulates. That dual accomplishment of trumping both Nixon and Wilson is difficult, but the president has found it useful for nearly seven years.

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