Yes, it was a stroke of genius when the Democrat Party realized they had a Presidential candidate that to criticize him would be politically incorrect. If anyone criticized their homosexual Muslim Kenyan President, they would be immediately chastised for being a homophobic Islamophobic racists.
I had that exact same stroke of Genius back in 1996. I told anyone who would listen that we ought to nominate a Black Conservative for President because we would have gained all that "Historical first" benefit and would also have put the media into the position of having difficulty in criticizing anything he said or did.
Had we nominated a strong Black conservative, much of the misery we are currently dealing with would never have happened.
Unfortunately we put principle above pragmatism. Had we just been willing to look at people as a "color" we would have cleaned the Democrat's clocks.