"As for this not being America: America is where people who have always earned 100 percent on the dollar, people whose religion will never get them thrown off any airplane, people whose votes will always be counted, people who dominate banking, business, education, politics, media and every other field this side of pro basketball, people to whom cops and courts often defer, people who enjoy better health and greater wealth, people for whom the country is and always has been, a conspiracy in their favor, whine about how victimized they are...We fail to do that when we embrace false equivalence — something else the president illustrated, initially blaming the violence on "many sides" — as if Nazis and those who oppose them were moral equals. But we also fail to see the country as it is when we conflate the actual and the ideal and give ourselves credit we do not deserve."

Exactly.