In the past I've liked some of the things this guy has had to say, but his Op-Ed for the Post today lost me entirely with this statement.
Since World War II, perhaps the Republican Party's greatest political achievement has been to marry conservatism -- once considered a patrician creed -- with anti-elitism. The synthesis began with Joseph McCarthy, who used conspiratorial anti-communism to attack America's East Coast, Ivy League-dominated foreign policy class. It grew under Richard Nixon, who exploited white working-class resentment against campus radicals and the black militants they indulged.
That's right, the Black Power movement was nothing more than the indulgence of Campus Radicals. Never mind that the U.S. government, the F.B.I, and Nixon focused their efforts almost entirely on derailing the black militants rather than the campus radicals with COINTELPRO.