Is ingratiating yourself with a minority by turning it against a majority a good long-term political strategy? Democrats seem to think so, but they are running out of options and don’t have much of a choice. After their failure at the polls last year, Congress’s liberal losers have fallen back on the tried and true.

Did you think that because the U.S. contributes so much to keeping the United Nations afloat we would be protected from unwarranted scrutiny over accusations of police brutality and torture? Our money won’t help our image when our own people draw the world into the evolving racial mythology of the Ferguson conflict.