In case anyone still needs confirmation, the rage and frenzy surrounding the supposed standoff caught on video last week between Covington Catholic High School students and an anti-Catholic, Native American activist demonstrates as nothing else has lately that the political left's primary aim, the end game of identity politics, is the demonization of white Christian men.

Covington student Nicholas Sandmann (pictured above) was the unfortunate epicenter of this tempest-in-a-teapot concocted entirely by the activist media, in which he and his classmates were falsely portrayed as racist bullies surrounding and taunting a frail Native American "elder," Nathan Phillips. The truth – that it was the schoolboys who were verbally assaulted by Black Hebrew Israelite activists, and that Sandmann did and said nothing but stand his ground and smile in the face of Phillips' provocation – swiftly came to light, but not before the entire country had squared off over the lie.

It wasn't that the news media got the story wrong, which would imply that they made a mistake, but that they didn't care about getting it right. They didn't care, because they saw an opportunity to dehumanize a white male wearing that triggering symbol of white supremacy, the "Make America Great Again" cap, and decided to run with a narrative that could be weaponized against President Trump and his "angry white male" supporters. "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it," master strategist Saul Alinsky once taught, and Catholic white boy Sandmann became the left's target of the moment.