WaPo columnist laments: America's problem is that white people support the GOP

I suppose that is a problem is you favor the radical transformation of America along leftist lines. If you don’t, you might be tempted to say that America’s problem is that black people back the Democrats — which they do to a significantly greater extent than whites back the Republicans.

You probably wouldn’t say this, though — perhaps out of fear of being called a racist by people like Perry Bacon, but mainly because it’s a ridiculous way of describing what ails America. …

All that’s unique about Bacon’s column is his aggressive invocation of race. He clearly wants readers of the Post — the vast majority of whom subscribe to his laundry list of Dem talking points — to blame “whitey” for what ails this country and to agree that “because White people are likely to be the majority of voters for at least two decades, America is in trouble.”

If one argued the reverse — that it is white voters who are keeping this country out of trouble, or limiting the amount of trouble we’re in, one would be accused of race-baiting. Bacon can fairly be accused of the same thing.