New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait wrote in late July that anger over President Obama’s disparagement of small-business owners (“You didn’t build that”) really came from the fact that it was delivered in “black dialect.” Earlier this month, AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka accused the members of his own union who did not back Obama in 2008 of doing so out of “pure racism.” Last week, Vice President Joe Biden told a crowd in Danville, Va., that the Republican ticket wanted to “put y’all back in chains.”

The disturbing theme is unmistakable. It is quickly becoming standard for Obama’s defenders to brand all criticism of or opposition to the nation’s first black president as somehow motivated by racial animus.

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