AMERICAN INHUMANITY

Progressive commentators claim to be utterly surprised by the vicious inhumanity of the Righties who have turned on Sgt. Bergdahl and his parents. For those with a sense of history such manifestations of vicious inhumanity are as American as the proverbial apple pie. Remember those huge crowds of white supremacist barbarians—men, women, and children—taking delight in the hanging of a black man? Remember the vicious slaughter, in 1955, of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, whose father Louis Till had been hanged a decade earlier by the U.S. army?