PHILIP CARL SALZMAN: The Peculiar Progressive-Islamist Alliance. “Progressive leftists, who wish to bring socialism to America, and Islamists, who wish to bring Sharia law to America, are strange bedfellows indeed.”

Not really. They both need to smash existing political institutions and cultural norms to get their way. But like Hitler and Stalin feasting on the corpse of Poland, they’d be at each others’ throats soon enough.