When Trump hits the panic button, he usually steps into the zone of impropriety where he’s been so often that he ought to be required to pay rent.
Earlier this week when he called the impeachment inquiry a lynching, we were reminded of Justice Clarence Thomas who called the accusations of sexual harassment made by Anita Hill part of a “high-tech lynching” during his Senate hearing in 1991.
Neither Thomas nor Trump—and certainly not Trump—seemed to understand the full import of the concept and what it has meant to African Americans whose lives were endangered and too often extinguished by lynching.
To evoke the word as Thomas did is another indication of Trump reeling under the gathering momentum of impeachment, summoning every tactic in his egregious arsenal to ward off what appears to be an inevitable fate for him.
It is a sad commentary that we have someone in the White House who is a troglodyte, a racist throwback to Andrew Johnson and even to Woodrow Wilson, who endorsed the infamous film “The Birth of a Nation,” citing it as “history written with lightning.”
It’s safe to say that the views expressed by Johnson and Wilson were consistent with the electorate of their times, and to some degree Trump is similarly a product of the most reactionary aspect of our culture.
Hours before he tweeted his comments about lynching, hundreds took to the streets over the weekend calling for the removal of Trump and Pence from office. Some of the chants voiced then anticipated Trump’s use of the word lynching, many of them outraged by his fascist tendencies, his identification with white supremacy.
The Ku Klux Klan and other vicious terrorists were proponents of lynch law and it’s despicable that Trump has not denounced lynching and is instead using it as a defense measure.
Nothing is off limits for Trump and that is why we continue to voice our protest and put our boots on the ground with an aim that to Make America Great Again—Trump Must Go!
