Ben Carson Credit: Saul Loeb

Ben Carson
Credit: Saul Loeb

CLEVELAND — It took Ben Carson just a few short minutes to move away from the teleprompter and toward the devil at the Quickens Loans Arena Tuesday.

About half an hour after New Jersey Governor and fellow Trump primary victim Chris Christie staged a mock witch trial for Hillary Clinton, Carson strolled to the podium, beaming from ear to ear.

“I’m not politically correct,” Carson announced. “And I hate political correctness.”

From there, he abandoned his prepared remarks to talk about Saul Alinsky, the Democratic socialist writer who met with Hillary Clinton while she was in college and who’s become a bugaboo of the right. Alinsky, said Carson—who’s been talking about this for years now—dedicated his book Rules for Radicals to Lucifer. Connect the dots.

“I’m bringing it to people’s attention,” Carson explained to The Daily Beast last month, in the context of defending Hillary Clinton’s Methodist faith from Trump’s attacks on it. Anyone who […]

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