Illinois governor Bruce Rauner is running what is surely this sad season’s most tasteless campaign commercial.
At a stroke he triggers the Evangelical Right’s hatred of same-sex marriage and predicts a disaster if his opponent is elected, and not-too-subtly suggests an “unholy union” on the part of the opposition. I suppose there’s a sort of perverse genius evidenced by this advertisement, but it’s a genius turned to corrupt purposes and deserves to backfire.