Former Republican Chair Michael Steele shames Trump and sycophant Lindsey Graham with powerful tweet

[kpete]

Donald Trump and @Lindsey Graham SC this is a lynching. Trump this is not happening to you and it’s pathetic that you act like you’re such a victim; but it did happen to 147 black people in your state Lindsey. “A lynching in every sense”? You should know better.

Link to tweet

Via:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/22/1894363/-Former-Republican-Chair-Michael-Steele-shames-Trump-and-sycophant-Lindsey-Graham-with-powerful-tweet?utm_campaign=trending

[renate]

1. like a punch to the gut, but something that needs to be seen and said

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Steele seems like a good guy. Why TF is he still a GD Repube?

[NCLefty]

8. Beaten-dog syndrome?

He thinks his old beloved GOP that only openly hated gays and Muslims is coming back.

It's not.

[bobbieinok]

13. Wasn't Steele GOP chairman when they won the House in 2010? And then got kicked out?

GOP condescendingly allows blacks to work for them but deny them any respect!!

[IronLionZion]

19. Black people can be conservative

They can have conservative views on economic and social issues while still understanding that lynching was a way of murdering people who were treated as inferior to other people, not having a privileged douchebag investigated by Congress. Many are religious conservatives and like low taxes and pro-business.

The other GOP senator from South Carolina, Tim Scott, has spoken publicly about the times he's been racially profiled and pulled over for no reason other than his race made him look suspicious.

Race is not the defining issue for every non-white minority. I've encountered brown immigrants who voted for Trump, for example. And some of them might be in therapy covered by Obamacare now.

[CurtEastPoint]

24. I didn't link his race to anything at all. I've seen him many ...

times on TV and he seems reasonable and personable and why is he a Repube? Be conservative all you want, but that is too much.

[IronLionZion]

30. He's not that good of a guy

he's attacked Obama and Pelosi and led the GOP in the tea party revolution of 2010 that got their party both houses of congress and lots of state legislatures that gerrymandered congressional districts everywhere.

He's been very bad for Democrats for a long time. Plenty of Republicans can seem reasonable and personable while pursuing bad policies and helping elect terrible people to office.

[CurtEastPoint]

41. Well stated. Didn't remember that. I guess I am thinking back to his

Appearances on Bill Maher and he seemed reasonable. Looks can be deceiving!

[BlueMTexpat]

42. This.

He was Lt. Gov. in MD.

He also gave the GOP counterpart to Barack Obama's 2004 Convention speech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Steele

In comparison to today's GOPers, he looks reasonable. But only in comparison.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. lynching included other sadistic forms of murder ...

Most of the lynchings were by hanging or shooting, or both. However, many were of a more hideous nature—burning at the stake, maiming, dismemberment, castration, and other brutal methods of physical torture. Lynching therefore was a cruel combination of racism and sadism, which was utilized primarily to sustain the caste system in the South. Many white people believed that Negroes could only be controlled by fear. To them, lynching was seen as the most effective means of control.

-- The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States,1880-1950

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Drumpf and his ilk

would have been part of a crowd celebrating a lynching like that.

[LakeArenal]

11. "Good people on both sides" he said. And he meant it.

[bobbieinok]

14. Picture postcards were made and bought to remember the 'great celebration'

[BigMin28]

33. People brought their families

Had picnics and made a day of it. How sick and twisted is that. Pure evil.

[NNadir]

37. Which ones are Lindsay's mom and dad? n/t

[Cartaphelius]

5. Being a true southerner

liitle Lindsey, I am quite sure, of this rich southern tradition. Probably has family that are active participants.

[ffr]

6. K&R

No quarters given.

All republicans must go down.

[warmfeet]

7. I am with you.

They all must go down.

[CurtEastPoint]

27. Exactly.

[BigMin28]

34. + 1000

No quarter at all!

[mountain grammy]

38. Yep

[pangaia]

39. Touche! I want Howard Dean in charge like he was once...

50 state ATTACK !!!!!!!!!!

[padah513]

9. 147 lynchings of black people in his state that were acknowledged

I'm sure there were many, many more that weren't

[Lucky Luciano]

16. No kidding. That has to be way low.

[2naSalit]

21. No doubt about it.

I once met a person who suffered life-long from watching their grandfather drown a man for asking for water. It wasn't all that long ago, in GA.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

10. KR NT

[Paladin]

12. K&R (nt)

[California_Republic]

15. On Fox News they have video of Democrats call Clinton's

Impeachment a ‘political Lynching’.

Just the facts.

[Maru Kitteh]

18. Just the facts: FAUX is a steaming pile of pig shit with thick, creamy mucus gravy.

"In every possible way" as Lindsay would tell us.

[erronis]

17. While Lindsey and his ilk may be part of the lynching crowd, it wasn't political/partisan

Let's not forget that the Democrats also were very active in the South (and elsewhere) where hate crimes occurred.

We now associate Jim Crow policies with (R)epuglicons but they were also part of the southern Democratic strategies.

[Caliman73]

31. It wasn't "political/partisan" as in the parties, but it was totally political.

In the US we like to think in terms of political party and we associate the two longest standing parties The Democratic Party and The Republican Party and imbue them with historical consistency.

There are some consistencies within the parties over the the years as in the Republican Party has consistently been the party of the Owners of Capital while the Democratic Party has typically supported Labor.

One thing that is evident throughout American history is that the country was founded on a racial hierarchy that has been supported to various degrees throughout by almost ALL parties save the Radical Republicans.

It is not as much a Democratic v. Republican thing as a Conservative v. Progressive or Liberal dichotomy.

I have said more than once on this forum, with no intention to denigrate people on the forum or the Democratic Party of today, but the the ugly reality of the United States is that racism and sexism are extremely interwoven into the fabric of the American identity and though there is one major party that actively seeks to grow and reckon with the issues, they are deep in and deeply personal things that we struggle with as both individuals, and members of the society which subtly but actively continues to push a racial and gender based narrative that favors the dominant paradigm that Rich White Christian Men built and deserve to control this society.

[erronis]

40. Your points are well taken and respected. Perhaps more of a "messaging" thing

Influencing people is probably more finding their triggers and pressing them rather than caring about what those people are really standing for.

Lobbyists, politicians, and other salespeople don't really care about us or our backgrounds or aspirations. They want to know what they can do to influence us in the directions that they want to. Fear, hatred, patriotism; all well-known tropes. And easily stoked.

But I still think that the labels of Conservative/Progressive/Liberal don't represent the real forces at work. The real forces (IMHO) are greed, control, power, and altruism. The first three are easily stated, the last one (altruism) doesn't fit in. But it represents the heartland of most of us.

[Maru Kitteh]

20. Wow Kpete, your thread is quite a troll magnet! Witness the slimy apologists, ready

to excuse Lindsay and all the Repukes! Amazing.

[dalton99a]

25. +1

[Evergreen Emerald]

26. I noticed quite an increase

in trolls of late. Must be the season. Do they know that we don't buy their **it?

Where is a bridge when you need one?

[dalton99a]

22. Kick

[bluestarone]

23. He (Lindsay Graham) doesn't know it, but a lot of his fellow RETHUGS would

Do the same thing to gays!

[dem4decades]

29. Even suspected gays.

[SergeStorms]

28. Poor Donnie. Always the victim.

Lying piece of crap! You certainly deserve lynching, Little Donnie, but we'll all settle for impeachment and removal from office. Then perhaps a few years, or more, in a nice federal prison, but no lynching.

And Miss Lindsey? You're a disgrace to the Senate. Resign or be defeated, your choice.

[YOHABLO]

32. Michael Steele was the head of the RNC, denounce the party and become a Dem.

[yuiyoshida]

35. I don't think this photo will affect Trump at all....

After all, its NOT HIM on the tree, and you know...ITS ALL ABOUT HIM.

[NNadir]

36. Graham is clearly incapable of shame. Like is master, he's a racist pig to the core. n/t.

[redstatebluegirl]

43. He has about had it with his party I think.

[Nitram]

44. Absolutely appropriate way to bring home the meaning of lynching for the ignorant and/or

racist demagogues who blithely and casually misuse the term. Whining that the Constitutional process of impeachment is a "lynching" is an obscene travesty given the history of lynching in this country.