That Clinton MLK Gaffe

This sums it up pretty succinctly:

The analogy Clinton was implying was obvious: I’m Lyndon Johnson, unlovely doer; he’s Martin Luther King, charismatic dreamer. Vote for me if you want results.

Forty years ago, that arrangement — white president enacting African-American dreams — was necessary because discrimination denied blacks their own autonomous political options. Today, that arrangement — white liberals acting as tribune for blacks in return for their political loyalty — is a demeaning anachronism. That’s what the fury at Hillary was all about, although no one was willing to say so explicitly.