Barack Obama’s presidency was supposed to usher in America’s post-racial era. But Ferguson, Mo., shows that hope was perhaps too audacious.

The cause of racial justice might need not a black Democrat but a white Republican — just as normalization with China required not a liberal peacenik but a security hawk like Richard Nixon.

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