What Happens When the Demand for Racism Exceeds the Supply

Over the past few weeks, we have heard a lot more about “lynching” than a normal person might have expected in 2026.

Left-wing “Squad” member and Massachusetts Representative Ayanna Pressley recently used her website and the House.gov resource to demand “a thorough, transparent, and comprehensive federal investigation into the numerous incidents of Black people found hanging across the country.” Somewhat astonishingly, Pressley claims not only that there have been at least ten probable lynchings of black folks in 2026 but also that a recent think tank analysis “documented more than 70 modern-day lynchings in the United States.”