Commentary Barack Obama famously accused red state conservatives—Republicans in general, I suppose—of “clinging to their guns and religion.” Condescending and nasty as that was, to some extent he had a point. But another way to say the exact same thing and give it a more positive overtone is “clinging to the Bill of Rights.” Nothing wrong with that, in fact it’s laudable, unless you’re a Marxist, another kind of totalitarian or, apparently these days, the United States ambassador to the United Nations. The Democrats, however, “cling” to something far more pejorative and pernicious—racism. You could say they can’t live with it, can’t live without it, but the emphasis should really be on the latter. They can’t live without it. We have seen that virtually everywhere since Obama’s election that many of us hoped would put an end to racism. It did the reverse. It brought it back, or more accurately, …