Heresy is a dangerous thing on the left. And right now the wholesale embrace of identity politics, combined with vocal purges of anyone not only questioning it, but paying insufficient fealty to it or just being the wrong skin color at the wrong time, makes that sort of heresy particularly dangerous. So it's not surprising that the lefty sphere is quite angry at Garrison Keillor.
What did the voice of liberal appropriation of flyover country culture used to sell public tote bags do wrong? Well he wrote the following lines, in a larger attack on Trump.
“A lackluster black Muslim congressman from Minneapolis is a leading candidate for chair of the Democratic National Committee, the person who will need to connect with disaffected workers in Youngstown and Pittsburgh... Why not a ballet dancer or a Buddhist monk?”
The left is not amused. Then again when is it ever amused except when attacking its enemies?
CityPages is fuming. There are angry tweets! Keith X. Ellison, fresh from his anti-Semitic racist UFO cult, is the great progressive hope. He could have beaten Trump!
"Ellison, being to Obama’s left on workers’ issues, has the potential to do even better than Obama among white workers in the Midwestern states that Trump narrowly won, and he certainly has the potential to get them out to vote in much larger numbers than Sec. Clinton did."
Especially when he explains to them that white people like them were created by an evil scientist and will be blown up by UFOs unless they worship Louis Farrakhan.
Meanwhile in possibly related news.
Musician answers door to find 'terribly lost' Garrison Keillor looking for help