Anybody who spoke at Sharpton's National Action Network conference is immediately disqualified from ever being president

And there was a slew of them: Robert O'Rourke, Corey Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris. Those are the current presidential candidates. Several other Democrats also spoke, and while they currently aren't pursuing the top executive-branch position, they may harbor such aspirations and they certainly occupy positions of maximum party influence: Tom Perez, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Eric Holder.

This is an appropriate moment for reviewing just what their host at the recently concluded conference  is all about, as David Harsanyi has done at The Federalist:

[He's] a guy who once said, “We taught philosophy and astrology [sic] and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”

Sharpton most famously threw an entire city into turmoil in 1987 when he cynically exploited the hoax of a black teen named Tawana Brawley—who claimed to have been raped, kidnapped, smeared with feces, and left wrapped in a plastic bag by a group of white men in Dutchess County, New York—for attention. To the surprise of absolutely no one, a state grand jury would find that her claims had been fabricated, perhaps as a way of avoiding punishment from her dad for staying out late.

When Sharpton and Brawley lost their defamation suits, it would not be the founder and president of the National Action Network Convention who would struggle. After 26 years, Brawley was the one who couldn’t pay her debt.

Then again, ruined lives are strewn across Sharpton’s career. Maybe Democrats need to be reminded that Sharpton used a tragic 1991 car accident to incite a four-day race riot in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Or maybe they just don’t care. It was Sharpton who stoked anger over the imaginary nexus between “Tel Aviv” and “South Africa” and the “diamond merchants right here.” After the Jewish community protested, Sharpton said, “Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.”

But, of course, Sharpton’s bejeweled and rotund frame was, as always, hiding behind bodyguards. It was his mob that took over. And one man who forgot to pin back his yarmulke was Yankel Rosenbaum, a 29-year old Orthodox Jew visiting from Australia who, after turning down a wrong street, was dragged from his car to the shouts of “Kill the Jews!” by throngs of angry protesters and stabbed to death. Never once has Sharpton shown any remorse for his role in this bloodletting.

When, in 1995, Fred Harari, a Jewish sub-tenant who operated a store called Freddie’s Fashion Mart, evicted his own sub-tenant, a black-owned record store owner, Sharpton, who told the protesters, “We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business,” saw another opportunity to provoke chaos.

Never mind that it had been a black Pentecostal church that had asked Harari to evict the record store owner. If you’re inclined, you can listen to his ceaseless race-baiting and anti-Semitism that Sharpton allowed, and engaged in, on his show day in and out. The venomous protests, fueled in part by his show and his presence, soon began to resemble a mob. When Roland Smith Jr. went in with a gun, he asked all the black patrons to leave before he killed everyone else. The “white interloper,” as Sharpton perceptively predicted, “did not expand his business in Harlem.” 

You wouldn't have to enumerate the other reasons these people and their party are immediately morally disqualified from holding high office (even as some of them do): celebration of infanticide, Jew-hatred ( a trait they share with Sharpton), driver's licenses and voting privileges for illegal aliens, and the perpetuation of several lies: that the global climate is in a state of crisis, that gender is fluid, that two people of the same gender can get married, that systemic bigotry is as major societal problem. That they would have anything to do with a repugnant figure like Sharpton, much less speak at his conference, seals the deal on their illegitimacy as agents of public-policy influence.

The only question is whether there is still a critical mass of post-Americans who understand this. I feel reasonably confident that there is. Growing numbers of post-Americans are secular and collectivist in their outlook, but they still retain at least a faint glimpse of our nation's philosophical foundation and can see that association with Sharpton bears the stench of civilizationsl death.