Hillary summons old specter for new terror

I once read it theorized that early Ku Klux Klan members had this reason for wearing white robes: They hoped to terrorize "superstitious" black Americans by looming in the night as risen deceased Confederate soldiers. Specters.

Hillary Clinton now alleges a philosophical affinity between Donald Trump and the (thankfully dwindling) Klan. Her newest TV ad makes much of footage of the robed and hooded miscreants.

Of course, no such link genuinely exists. Hillary doubtless hopes to divert attention from the "pay for play" State Department/Clinton Foundation racket through which she and her husband, predatory sexual deviant Bill, sought personal enrichment at national peril. And she surely hopes to reverse Trump's recent gains among black voters.

Black Trump backer Pastor Mark Burns immediately issued a vehement denunciation of her deceitful plot.

"Hillary Clinton and her campaign went to a disgusting new low today as they released a video tying the the Trump campaign with horrific racial images. This type of rhetric and repulsive advertising is revolting and completely beyond the pale. I call on Hillary Clinton to disavow this video and her campaign for this sickening act that has no place in our world." 

(Pastor Burns's acidic assessment is solidly in the pocket. But do not await assent from the mainstream media commentariat. Their dear loyalties lie not with principle, but ideological promotion. It is not for nothing so many deride CNN as the Clinton News Network.)

Another manifest ambition of Hillary's is the unilateral redefintion of "racism."

By its strict, accepted definition, racism denotes the odious, injurious, and flatly apocryphal notion that entire groups are superior or inferior due to peculiar, immutable biological characteristics.  Also, it follows, statements or actions issuing from that base fancy.

Hillary's reptilian artifice seeks to carry the goalpost to an intellectually illegitimate, wildly far distance. In this illogical redefinition, enforcing immigration statutes and national borders is of a type with cross burnings and lynchings. So, too, is the perfectly reasonable desire for vigorous law enforcement, including appropriate punishments.

Those are, of course, legitimate views held by Americans of various demographic characters. And they have traditionally been non-controversial. But we are now lectured to revile all such opinions, and anyone voicing them, as poisonous and ugly in caliber.

By extension, we are to similarly disdain any political opposition to her as representative of and ancillary to the wickedness of racial bigotry both contemporary and historical.

All Trump supporters, according to this spurious calculation, are homicidal hate-apostles of morbid order.

Trump earned the primary votes of millions of average, law-abiding, working Americans. His general election rallies break attendance records. 

Hillary's airy indifference to all of these citizens is most telling. 

In New Hampshire remarks Trump delivered prior to Hillary's meagerly-attended Nevada rally, he denounced her foul, false ballot-angling: "The news reports are that Hillary Clinton is going to accuse this campaign, and the millions of Americans who support this campaign, of being racists. It's the oldest play in the Democratic playbook. When Democratic policies fail, they are left with just this one, tired argument. It's the last refuge of the failed Democrat politician. They keep going back to this well, but the well is dry."

He added, "She's attacking all of the decent people -- of all backgrounds -- that support this incredible, once-in-a-lifetime movement."

Hillary's eager employ of hate group imagery for base electoral reasons, and her opportunistic endeavors at re-tailoring an accepted word definition, are by themselves sufficient for her dismissal from reasonable regard. 

But I do see something else. Something both old and new.

For, just as early Klansmen hoped to terrorize black Americans, so, too, has the Hillary campaign now hit on the same specter scheme, waving related imagery in a tawdry bid to scare black Americans into staying 'in their place.'

You might think even her above such sleazy stuntery. But then you remember that her name is Clinton.