Jonah — It’s funny that your correspondent Albert thinks that conservatives want to firebomb the inner city. After all, wasn’t that the strategy of then-Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode, a liberal Democrat?
[Yes, I know the story of the MOVE bombing is more complicated — I lived in Philadelphia at the time — but it underscores the point that a liberal Democrat, Goode, is the only politician to have done what Albert accuses conservatives of wanting to do.]