Bigoted talk returns to political campaigns

BY LEONARD PITTS
Posted 6:00 AM

... In tacitly endorsing bigotry on the one hand and enthusiastically embracing it on the other, Trump and Carson provide redundant proof that they are manifestly unfit for the presidency. One is sobered, however, by the renewed reminder that such bigotry no longer automatically disqualifies them from it. Indeed, experience suggests that some people will even see it as the sign of authentic truth-telling unencumbered by political correctness ...

Land of the free, except for Muslims? With liberty and justice for all, except for Muslims?

All men are created equal, except for Muslims? Any little girl might grow up to be president, provided she is not a Muslim?

If it is sad that some of us think that way, it is appalling that prominent aspirants to the nation’s highest office can now think that way openly ...

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