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Trump began the incitement towards armed insurrection in Wilmington, NC on 9 August 2016

Donald Trump’s incitement to armed insurrection began on August 9, 2016 in Wilmington, North Carolina. The New York Times reported on the strong reactions to his speech at the time but failed to recognize the significance of where the speech was given, Wilmington, NC, the site of the only successful insurrection in the United States to overthrow a legitimately elected government. The city of Wilmington, the wealthiest city in North Carolina at the end of the nineteenth century, had elected a multiracial fusion party, a fusion of African Americans, American Indians and white liberals to run the city. As the cartoon above, published by Josephus Daniels’ Raleigh News and Observer shows, “Negro Rule” threatened the lifestyle, power and wealth of prominent white supremacists such as Mr. Daniels.

Over a century later, the election of Barack Obama rekindled the same forces of reaction in conservative white America as the election of the Wilmington fusion government did in 1898. At the forefront of the reaction was Donald Trump who lit a fire to the “birther movement” to attack the legitimacy of President Barack Obama. Mr. Trump continued his racist, but first Amendment protected speech through President Obama’s tenure but at his rally in Wilmington he escalated to egging to crowd towards armed violence if Hillary Clinton won the election. www.nytimes.com/…

Repeating his contention that Mrs. Clinton wanted to abolish the right to bear arms, Mr. Trump warned at a rally here that it would be “a horrible day” if Mrs. Clinton were elected and got to appoint a tiebreaking Supreme Court justice.

“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd began to boo. He quickly added: “Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.”

Oblique as it was, Mr. Trump’s remark quickly elicited a wave of condemnation from Democrats, gun control advocates and others, who accused him of suggesting violence against Mrs. Clinton or liberal jurists. Bernice A. King, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., called Mr. Trump’s words “distasteful, disturbing, dangerous.” …