From Birmingham to L.A.: What the Optics of Protest Still Reveal

History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes — and the fault lines in both politics and protest movements are as visible now as they’ve ever been.

I’m in the middle of writing tomorrow’s column for The Hill about (you guessed it) the Los Angeles protests.

So I won’t get too deep into it here — not because there’s nothing to say, but because there’s almost too much to say, and only so many ways to describe the déjà vu of American dysfunction before you start repeating yourself.

The good news? I did …