The Big Lynching Lie: Democrat hypocrisy edition

So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the President, without due process or fairness or any legal rights. All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here - a lynching. But we will WIN!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2019

Democrats and their lapdog #FakeNews media friends are in a tizzy over this tweet.  They're saying that Trump's use of the term lynching is an insult to Blacks.

This is bizarre on so many levels.

First the KKK--the last millennia version of Antifa--was a Democrat organization that terrorized Blacks, with lynching being one of their techniques, to keep Democrats in power.  Hence to have Democrats whose ancestors lynched Blacks say that Trump using the word is offensive to Blacks is simply amazing.

Second a lynching is not the unjust hanging of someone who's Black; it's the extra legal execution of anyone. The definition of lynching is:

• from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of executing lynch-law upon a person; the killing of a person by a mob under pretense of summary justice.

  from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Execution of a person by mob action without due process of law, especially hanging
  • noun Any act of violence inflicted by a mob upon the body of another person.
  • verb Present participle of lynch.

  from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law

  
  

While there can be a racial component, the KKK's lynching of Blacks was certainly driven by racism, a lynching occurs whenever a mob kills someone without due process.

In fact the largest mass lynching in American history was of Italian in New Orleans in 1891 as Rush pointed out today.

Third Democrats have used the term lynching to refer to political actions by others that they thought were unjustified. Joe Biden himself used the term in the context of the Clinton impeachment. Breitbart has a whole article listing the results of a quick search into Democrats using the word lynching in a context similar to Trump's.  Among the examples are:

• Democrat Representative Patrick J Kennedy described the Clinton impeachment as "a political lynching" according to the New York Times.
• Hillary Clinton in 2016 said: "“When you are inciting mob violence, which is what Trump is doing,” Clinton said, “there’s a lot of memories that people have. They’re in the DNA. People remember mob violence that lead to lynching,..."
• The Washington post declared that Republicans were a "lynch mob" because they called for Hillary to be imprisoned.
• Ohio Democratic chairmen David J. Leland is quoted in the New York Times in 1998 saying that people recognized the Clinton impeachment as "a political lynching".

The simple reality is that we all know that a lynching doesn't have to have anything to do with Blacks just as a genocide doesn't have to involve Jews.

Democrats and the #FakeNews media are just changing the rules in order to attack Trump and to deflect we the people from recognizing that a closed door secret impeachment process where Trump can't defend himself and we the people can't see what's going on is a lynch mob dressed up as elected officials.