Neopopulists are rewriting history on the Young Patriots

Today's right would have called the Young Patriot woke communist dirtbags - because that's what they were.

Every year or so, one of our media neopopulists rediscovers Fred Hampton’s Rainbow Coalition between the Black Panthers, the Young Lords, and the Young Patriots Organization. And every time, they say the same thing: “The Black Panthers were willing to work with the Young Patriots — so why won’t today’s left work with the hard right?” A few years ago it …