He tweeted:
xPosted my Monday column, "Trump, Grand Wizard of Birtherism," early online because it wouldn't hold. Enjoy… https://t.co/tHxlIbkPjp
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) September 17, 2016The link takes you to a column already accessible, titled Trump, Grand Wizard of Birtherism
Let’s consider that title. It is given to the head of the Ku Klux Klan, who is labeled either the Grand or the Imperial Wizard, all the way back to Nathan Bedford Forrest.
It is not clear WHY the column will not hold, and whether Blow anticipates writing another between now and Monday, but this one is appropriately delicious, starting with its very beginning:
So, on Friday the Grand Wizard of Birtherism against President Obama admitted that birtherism was bunk, not by apologizing for his prominent role in the racist campaign — no, that would have been too right — but by suggesting that he deserved credit for dousing the flames he’d fanned.
This man is so low that he’s subterranean.
Now we need to be careful Blow is NOT, unlike Trump, making a suggestion of violence towards a political opponent — he is not saying that Trump should be dead a buried, but rather that it is impossible to readily describe how low he has gone.
Just wanted to be clear about that.
But of course there is more.