When I, Rep. James Clyburn, can far more easily just accuse my opponent of racism.

It must be great to have possession of this trump card.  No need to devote any time to constructive thinking about how to best understand or approach complex problems.  No need to improve one’s own knowledge to keep up with a rapidly changing world.  No need, in fact, to know how to do anything except for denouncing everything that doesn’t please you as racist.  Not when you can simply fall back on this old chestnut (slipping into English vernacular here).

It can be applied to anything and it’s the last word in any discussion.  There exists no faster way to shut down open debate, Nancy Pelosi aside.

Being a Catholic, I think that it may be time to start moaning incessantly about the prejudice and discrimination that I have to endure.  There’s not been a (nominal) Catholic president since JFK, so that has to be redressed for starters.

Then I want special employment rights, a dedicated category of criminal law for anti-Papist fiends and the protection of the state against any and all who oppose anything that I think, do or say.

Now if I just repeat this loudly and often enough…