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On a morning where several prominent D.C. politicians, including Vince Gray and Adrian Fenty, attended a Democratic “unity” breakfast — perhaps a first step towards healing the sizable divides that were opened up in this year’s campaign — it’s interesting that the Post decided to run this inflammatory Courtland Milloy column. At its core, Milloy’s piece is a blunt hit job on the Fenty administration. But that’s not really the big problem here — it’s that the column goes so much further than legitimate political criticism allows, depicting an author with an apparent desire to re-inject a culture of divisiveness back into the city.

Advising Gray to “not overlook the bile on the ballot,” Milloy rails against “arrogant efforts to restructure government on behalf of a privileged few,” calling Fenty’s cold-hearted reformation an “odious” scheme and a return to the “friendly fascism” of the “plantation-style” government of Washington in the 1960s. To say he’s not keen on Fenty supporters would be understating things:

Watch them at the chic new eateries, Fenty’s hip newly arrived “creative class” firing up their “social media” networks whenever he’s under attack: Why should the mayor have to stop his work just to meet with some old biddies, they tweet. Who cares if the mayor is arrogant as long as he gets the job done?

Myopic little twits.

But wait, Milloy hasn’t even gotten to Michelle Rhee yet.