Monthly Archives for October 2019


The Ahistorical Metaphor of Lynching

“All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here – a lynching.” –Donald Trump, 22 October 2019 Within a few hours after President Trump’s tweet, some of his most ardent supporters were posting about Democratic hypocrisy. Video of Joe Biden and other Democrats describing the 1998 impeachment efforts against President Bill Clinton as a “lynching’ […]