JAMES TARANTO: Why They Stood and Cheered: Gingrich confronts the left’s insidious theory of racial supremacy. “Next to the election of a black president, we’d say that Gingrich’s standing O was the most compelling dramatization of racial progress so far this century. Which isn’t to say that racism has been completely eradicated. It lives on in the minds of liberals who see Bull Connor when they look at Ozzie Nelson.”

Bull Connor was a Democrat, by the way.