Remember eight years ago, when Democrats decided that a few aggressive statements by Donald Trump constituted inappropriate calls to violence?
Well, that was then, this is now.
Welcome to 2024, when a Democratic Party official not only made comments supporting the lynching of Trump supporters on Facebook, but went on talk radio to vigorously defend them, even though they were taken down.
According to The Midwesterner, a Michigan-based conservative-leaning publication, the comments were made by Lenawee County Democratic Party Chairman Bill Swift from the official party account.
Screenshots of the posts from last week, now deleted, say that “anybody who is trying to make Donald Trump King is a traitor who should be hanged by the neck until dead.”
“We’ve been consistent about this before the election,” Swift wrote in a response. “Presidents are not Kings and anybody trying to make a president a king is a domestic enemy of the Republic and a traitor who deserves the full measure of punishment as outlined in the Constitution of the United States.”
While treason is a crime punishable by death in the Constitution, voting democratically for an eligible candidate for president isn’t punishable by being “hanged by the neck until dead” anywhere in that august document.
Hellbound and Down 