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that you’d expect for the new focus on BLM’s lack of financial controls — “anti-Black racism.” Yes, good accounting is racist, now.

Democrats wonder how they can blunt GOP attacks on culture issues and believe that if they explain their positions better, they’ll be fine. But the party is positioned so far left that it needs bold gestures. If it wanted to send an unmistakable signal of change, it would denounce the leadership of BLM, call for investigations into its finances, declare that the group’s priorities aren’t those of the Democratic Party, and wear the ensuing furor from the left as a badge of honor.

But Democrats won’t do that and can’t do that — which is why they are in such trouble.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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