On an especially contentious Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Left offered two more concrete examples of its ideological rigidity. As growing numbers of Democrats announced they’ll be skipping President-elect Trump’s inauguration, media outlets and publications engaged in a contest to pen the most outrageous op-ed.
In the New York Times, there was a strong assertion that MLK’s dream was not merely one of racial equality, but was also steeped in the tradition of Democratic Socialism. On Twitter, #ReclaimMLK trended, attempting to deny anyone of a non-leftist persuasion (including most whites) the right to venerate the Civil Rights era icon.
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