Sen. Lindsey Graham is busy digging himself a very deep hole to prove his fealty to Donald Trump. White supremacist Trump declared himself the victim of a "lynching" in a tweet Tuesday morning, over the impeachment inquiry in the House.
Graham, senator from South Carolina, agrees. "This is a lynching in every sense. This is un-American." In every sense, he says. Asked if he could understand why African Americans are horrified by this comparison, Graham doubled down. "No, I think lynching is being seen as somebody taking the law in their own hands and out to get somebody for no good reason."
There were 156 actual lynchings in South Carolina between 1882 and 1930, the South Carolina Encyclopedia says, though the practice didn't end in 1930. "The last lynching in South Carolina occurred on February 17, 1947, when a white mob murdered Willie Earle, a young black man who had been arrested for murdering a white taxicab driver." Graham was born just eight years later.
Graham knows very well what lynching is. So do all of the people of South Carolina who he purports to represent. Clearly, he doesn't represent all of the people of his home state. He has got to go.
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