Mark Robinson has apparently taken the saying that any press is good press a bit too literally. It looks like the self-described “Black Nazi” will certainly lose a race in which he always trailed, though Republicans should have prevailed given North Carolina’s current political climate.

One might wonder how we got here. How could a person who called the Holocaust “hogwash” and who had a history of making unhinged Facebook posts make it to such an important position? Well, it seems North Carolina conservatives were duped into nominating a man with a closet of skeletons that would make John Edwards blush.

Despite the well-publicized baggage Robinson carried, he reigned supreme in the primary for two reasons: distrust of the media and Donald Trump’s endorsement. This distrust, which once served as a healthy skepticism of establishment narratives, now occasionally ventures into an outright refusal to believe anything negative that is said about “our side.” This is a dangerous precedent that has allowed self-described “pervs” like Robinson to thrive while more credible voices are sidelined.

That’s why I feel it’s time to introduce an axiom: Just because media outlets are sometimes wrong does not mean that they are always wrong.

Make no mistake, the media will shamelessly lie if it means maintaining a statist status quo and continuing the United States on the path to national suicide. But it falls on me to say that sometimes the media is right.

North Carolina’s “Black Nazi” will try to convince you that he’s a victim of false accusations conjured up by the Leftmedia, but don’t be fooled. He is actually a creep who should be in the pews of the church, not at its pulpit.

Moreover, it is particularly disturbing that Robinson would try to compare himself to Clarence Thomas by claiming to be a victim of a high-tech lynching. Robinson is banking on the ignorance of his supporters to believe his assertion that the current media campaign against him gives him victimhood comparable to that of the Honorable Justice Thomas.

Yes, CNN likely held this information until the most damaging time possible. But as our Douglas Andrews said, “Robinson appears to have supplied his political enemies with the rope.”

On the other hand, conservative UPenn law professor Amy Wax, who possesses a bachelor’s degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, an MD from Harvard, and a JD from Columbia, is officially being sanctioned after years of a grueling fight with her school.

Wax ended up under Penn’s guillotine for what The Daily Pennsylvanian called her “history of discriminatory statements” (emphasis added). That’s an Orwellian redefinition of Wax’s actual “sin” — making observations about culture and statistics. Notably, there has not emerged any actual evidence of Wax turning her “discriminatory statements” into genuinely discriminatory actions.

I bring up Wax’s case right after describing Robinson’s forays into the fever swamps of the internet to highlight what hills it is worth conservatives dying on. Should conservatives spend any political capital defending Robinson? Heck no. Should conservatives be at the barricades defending Professor Amy Wax? You bet. In fact, any self-described liberal should be shouting from the mountaintops about the injustice these sanctions against Wax represent.

But who knows? I suspect Fox News will give Robinson ample time to defend himself in an attempt to secure a short-term political victory while simultaneously not touching Wax’s case with a 10-foot pole, despite it having more consequences in the long run.

Who knows? I am open to being proven wrong, but I’m not holding my breath.

Author’s note: This SHOULD go without saying, but a defense of Professor Amy Wax’s freedom of expression is not a statement of agreement with her views. Unfortunately, today’s PC climate requires me to make this qualification.