I was surprised and a little shocked by the description offered by letter writer Sam Faddis of a “standard narrative” of political conflict in the United States (“The United States is divided, but not in the way you think,” May 6). Faddis apparently believes that the United States is in the midst of a class struggle between “the American people” and “self-important … white liberals [who are] isolated from reality.” He apparently thinks that we have finally achieved that illusion of a “post-racial...