Republican National Convention Follows Witch-Burning Script

Amid unison cries of “Lock her up!” the Republican Party tonight attempted a witch-burning of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic rival to Donald J. Trump, the GOP’s presidential nominee. Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, whom Trump defeated in the primaries, even went so far as to link Clinton with Lucifer by means of a novel form of guilt by association — through the dedication in a book. And everyone knows the first order of witchery is consorting with the devil.

The book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, in which, with a twinkle in his eye, the famed organizer acknowledged Lucifer as the first radical. (Alinsky did not, as Carson said, dedicate his book to Lucifer; it is dedicated to someone named Irene.) Hillary Clinton wrote her undergraduate thesis on Alinsky, and in the course of doing so, exchanged correspondence with him....
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