Back to the Middle Ages

Many of us have become convinced that Trump and his Republican worshipers are leading us back into the Middle Ages, at least in terms of attitude, particularly the denial of science and the hostility toward non-white people.

But it appears that some Trump supporters are also going back to medieval beliefs in witches and evil spirits which, of course, they believe are living in the bodies of Democrats and attacking Republicans. The leader of Women for Trump Amy Kremer attributed the attacks on Brett Kavanaugh as being motivated by a hex placed on him by presumably Democratic witches. Here is a link to the Newsweek article about what she said October 14 on MSNBC.

Will we see a return to witch-hunts and burning at the stake for all the infidels who will not worship Trump? Presumably not; we might assume that people like Amy Kramer are speaking figuratively. But she did not say that it was a figure of speech! Given that the Republican Party has done things that even three years ago seemed unimaginable, we cannot rule out the possibility of the return of medieval mobs.