… wondering how a cartoon character like Ben Carson managed to get in front of the Republican pack. Well, just so’s you know, the crazy people think it’s, like, obvious that he belongs at the front of the pack, and that his present difficulties are a wicked media conspiracy. As a matter of fact, the crazy people knew that the Forces Of Darkness would soon align to ‘get’ him.
Last May we published a column, “Why They Must Destroy Ben Carson.” It has been determined that a black Christian conservative, especially a political outsider with credentials as a life-saving physician, just cannot be allowed to succeed in politics. Carson must be destroyed.
His life as a poor boy with a temper is now coming in for serious media scrutiny. Who did he hit? And why?
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All of this is happening now because Carson is doing very well in the presidential polls and could actually capture the GOP presidential nomination and threaten Hillary Clinton’s election to the presidency.
There has always been a loony right in America, near-rabid fever-swampers who see dark conspiracies and Illuminati lurking behind every tree and who believe everybody to the left of Louis the XIV dines on babies.
But until fairly recently they could be ignored; the press wouldn’t give them the time of day, and they had almost no way of finding each other and organizing and publishing their madness. The Internet changed that, and … who knew? There’s a hell of a lot more disaffection and sickness and desperation just below the surface than most of us ever imagined.