Fitting. Wilkes assassinated the Republican president who freed the slaves over near total democrat opposition. The democrats worked solid for the next 100+ years at keeping black citizens segregated and off the voter rolls. Even the democrat God (FDR) refused black Americans their full constitutional rights. And Truman. And Kennedy. Even Johnson. They were all afraid of losing the southern democrats and thus their own reelection campaigns. Johnson finally figured out a way to create a government plantation for black Americans and “get them voting straight democrat for a hundred years,” he bragged). The Great (welfare) Society.
Even more fitting that JWB was by profession....an actor.
Revising and extending my remarks:
And so now the democrats see Trump as a danger to their voting lock on black Americans. If he successfully improves the economy and brings back the good manufacturing jobs (for example) that the democrats claimed were lost forever, and opportunities for blacks continue opening up and black unemployment ranks continue falling, they might actually start thinking that freedom is better than socialism and start voting Republican again (already happening).
So the democrats are now desperately trying to take down President Trump, any way they can.