include a whole bunch of stupid bigoted people, I’m afraid.

Carson, who drew widespread criticism after declaring on Sunday that the United States should not elect a Muslim president, is now raking in the cash from donors who share his anti-Islam sympathies.

“We sent out an email to Carson supporters, and we’ve never had an email raise so much money so quickly—it’s unbelievable,” John Philip Sousa IV, chair of the National Draft Ben Carson for President PAC, and great-grandson of the marching band icon, told The Washington Times.

Carson says he’s gotten more than $1 million in small donations since he made those remarks on Meet the Press.

Nobody ever said we had a lot of well-versed scholars in this country who understood Article VI of the Constitution, but I had thought the principle of separation of church and state was pretty widely known. Perhaps not always approved of but certainly understood. I guess I was wrong.