But let's focus on Trump's obsession with "witch hunts." The decadent Mar-a-Lago dweller has no shame in stealing a metaphor that belongs to us — women.
Yet it turns out Trump does have a close connection with witch hunts. His sordid mentor, Roy Cohn, was the chief counsel to Sen. Joseph McCarthy's committee that blacklisted "communists" in Washington, New York and Hollywood during the 1950s.
For those who celebrate history, this is when it rhymes.
You and I know that mostly women suffered as they were accused, tried and hanged as witches in the Old and New Worlds.
Indulged all his miscreant life, Trump has nothing in common with innocent people who looked persecution in the eye.
Maybe you've heard of the medieval ducking pond test: If the woman sank to the bottom, that proved she was innocent of witchcraft. Widows, midwives or herb healers were sometimes suspected of having unnatural powers.
September was the month when the Puritan town of Salem, Massachusetts, put to death the largest number of "witches." Nine died, witnessed by the village. The year was 1692, and here we are still talking about witch hunts and trials, exactly 330 years later.
One Salem man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death with stones on Sept. 19. His wife Martha was hanged. The scenes were ugly as neighbors saw neighbors go to the gallows by the hill. Rebecca Nurse, 71, was condemned, despite an outcry. All told, 20 died in 1692, which left deep wounds in the small colonial village.
All were judged by men cloaked in legal and religious power.
Puritans were harsh on themselves, too. Five years later, a witch trial judge, Samuel Sewall, expressed remorse before a Boston church congregation, stating he "desires to take the blame and shame of it."
Try to imagine Trump taking "the blame and shame" of his actions. That takes courage. He would never do it, for he is always the victim.
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