Charles Krauthammer: As Left Loses Debates, They Attribute Opposition To "Racism"

Charles Krauthammer: "For a year and a half we had a national debate on the scope and the reach and the power of the government -- a real honest, refreshing debate. But, what's happened is as the left began losing that debate this year -- it didn't happen last year -- it began attributing the opposition to racism. And that happened in the press, among elite media, and the NAACP. And I think if there were less of that -- and that's what triggered this incident in particular -- and I think if there were less of that, if at least the other side would respect the honesty and the ideological sincerity of the opponents of the expansion of government and not attribute it on the basis of race, we would have a lot less of this, fewer incidents, and the atmosphere would be a lot less poison."