With college students, grassroots activists, and journalists flocking to the conference, the Conservative Political Action Conference is a time for the conservative movement to put its best foot forward. There’s no question this year, and every year, the conference will provide many worthy conservatives a platform to advance their ideas and showcase the movement’s top talent — and from a broad spectrum of right-of-center thought.

But giving former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. a platform isn’t helping that cause.