NOT AN OXYMORON: BEN CARSON, BLACK CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN: “One would think that, in a sane world, the fact that Carson is black and is one of the GOP leaders would make liberal pundits admit that GOP voters must not be as bigoted as the MSM and the Democrats previously thought (or previously claimed) they were. Now, that’s a story. But it isn’t a story you’ll hear much about. In fact, the leftist line about Carson and bigotry is that Carson is a bigot for criticizing Muslims who want sharia law.”

But then Sharia trumping gay rights is perhaps the strangest formulation of the left’s divide-and-conquer identity politics hierarchy.