It’s a tall order for a black politician to become popular with “the de facto largest white identity organization in the United States,” but writer Chauncey DeVega argues that Ben Carson has pulled it off by “betray[ing] the Black Freedom Struggle and assault[ing] the truth in all its forms.” (As you probably assumed, “white identity organization” is DeVega’s description of the Republican party.)

In a Monday Salon article, DeVega opined that if Carson hopes to keep leading the GOP presidential pack, he “will have to escalate his ridiculous claims in order to please and entertain the low information, authoritarian, racially resentful, and reactionary voters who form the Republican Party base.”

Among the “ridiculous claims,” stated DeVega, were Carson’s recent remarks likening abortion to slavery: “Ben Carson and the other conservatives who want to limit women’s reproductive rights and control over their own bodies have more in common with the whites who ran the slave labor rape and charnel camps of the American South than they do with Abolitionists such as John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, David Walker, Sojourner Truth, or William Lloyd Garrison.” (Italics in original.)

From DeVega’s piece (bolding added):