Posted on 10/24/2019 7:34:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump urged Republicans to "remember what they are witnessing here — a lynching." Democrats and #NeverTrump Republicans rushed to condemn the president's use of the term.
#NeverTrump Republican Joe Walsh said this was evidence that Trump is a "horrible human being." Julián Castro called the lynching comparison "beyond shameful." Kamala Harris accused Trump of invoking "the pain and trauma of lynching" to "whitewash [his] own corruption." Elizabeth Warren called Trump's tweet "beyond disgraceful."
Most notoriously, former Vice President Joe Biden called the comparison "abhorrent" and "despicable."
"Impeachment is not 'lynching,' it is part of our Constitution," Biden tweeted. "Our country has a dark, shameful history with lynching, and to even think about making this comparison is abhorrent. It's despicable."
Yet Democrats and #NeverTrump Republicans have also compared political attacks to lynchings, some in cases of impeachment. Some even accused Trump of egging on a lynching against Hillary Clinton...
Here are ten politicians who made the "despicable" comparison without triggering the outrage directed at Trump.
As PJ Media's Matt Margolis reported, Biden is himself guilty of the "despicable" comparison. In 1998, then-Senator Joe Biden (D-Del.) suggested the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton was a "political lynching."
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
THE “LYNCHING” LIST
1. Joe Biden
2. Jerry Nadler
3. David J. Leland: Former Chair of the Ohio Democratic Party
4. Jim McDermott (D- Washington)
5. Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.)
6. Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.)
7. Then-Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), nephew to former President John F. Kennedy
8. Marion Barry, former Democratic mayor of Washington,D.C.
9. former Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Ct.)
10. Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D-Va.)
What would be the appropriate description of a tongue-lashing by former attorney general.... Loretta
Some wags might call that a Lynching.
Biden threatened to lynch a black man in the 1960s with a piece of chain.
It would be informative to find out that source and publish some samples of the communications, the Marching Orders. Can that be done here on FB?
Justice Thomas says that Biden threw his opening pitch right at Thomas’ head with an out of context redacted quote.
There is. In the 1990s the Democrats’ website had a link to the day’s talking points and how to kiss up to conservative talk radio screeners to get through and push their daily narrative.
After that came Journolist with hundreds of popular news industry people discussing how to slant events and who would ask what question at press conferences.
All of this activity is still going in through more shielded channels.
No Robert KKK Byrd on the list?
I suppose he doesn’t really fit. When he talked of lynchings he was being literal.
“While some whites were lynched for murder or stealing cattle, there is another important reason many were lynched. Many whites were lynched for helping blacks or being anti-lynching. According to David Barton’s extensively well-documented book, “Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White,” the original targets of the Ku Klux Klan were Republicans, both black and white. The Klan terrorized both black and white Americans not to vote for Republican tickets. “Of all forms of violent intimidation, lynchings were by far the most effective.” Republicans often led the efforts to pass federal anti-lynching laws and their platforms consistently called for a ban on lynching. “Democrats successfully blocked those bills and their platforms never did condemn lynchings.”
So there it is, the inconvenient truth. The truth that more than 1,000 whites were lynched and many of them were lynched because they were Republican, because they supported their fellow black citizens and because they opposed the lawless act of lynching. Equal rights, political autonomy, personal freedom … these are fundamental principles of our democracy. But they have not always been so. More than 360,000 whites fought and died in the (un)Civil War to help defeat slavery. And many whites were lynched because they believed that these principles also belong to black Americans. Racism is not dead in America, but the fact remains that many whites have died trying to defeat it.”
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