The Lynching Epidemic That Wasn’t

The will to believe the worst about their own country is very strong among these people.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.)

Evelyn Hockstein, Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

Even paranoiacs have enemies, they say, but sometimes they are just paranoid.

Representative Ayanna Pressley, a founding member of the “Squad,” organized 59 Democrats to co-sign a letter demanding a federal investigation of a spate of supposed lynchings that never happened.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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