Ann Coulter: ‘Moronic’ To Ban Confederate Flag, Ban Democrats Instead

Controversial conservative author and Sharknado 3 star Ann Coulter apparently thinks banning the Democratic Party would be a better idea than doing the same to the Confederate flag.

The fiendish hate crime committed by a deranged gunman in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17 quickly morphed into a nationwide discussion, including possibly manufactured outrage, about whether the Confederate flag should continue to fly over the grounds of the state capitol in Columbia, as well as the offensive nature of similar displays in other states.

Most Americans regard the Confederate flag as a symbol of racism. The Confederacy comprised the southern slave states, which seceded from the union and which led to the Civil War. The suspect in the church massacre apparently drove a vehicle bearing Confederate flag license plates and posed in a picture waving the Confederate flag.

Like her or hate her, Coulter continues to crank out one best-seller after another, and in an intimation to her literary success, once claimed that she could only be fired by the American people. Coulter is also a master troller, particularly when she is selling a new book (as she is currently).

In a C-SPAN interview, Coulter offered her views about the debate over the Confederate flag and how it became politicized.

“I think it’s completely moronic. I mean, this is an awful thing that happened in Charleston. Luckily, it’s quite rare. But to jump on this and go back to a litany of liberal talking points that make Republicans look bad, how about banning the Democratic Party? They were the ones who supported — who were on the Confederate side of the Civil War. They were the ones that supported segregation for a hundred years. If we want to do something nice for black people, how about ending immigration which is dumping millions of low-wage workers on the country, taking jobs from African-Americans, as enumerable studies have shown.”

Coulter was likely alluding to the Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation in the south after Reconstruction that were implemented when those states were controlled by the Democrats.

According to the New York Times, the Confederate flag was unfurled over the South Carolina state capitol grounds while Democrat Gov. Ernest “Fritz” Hollings held office to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Civil War. “The fight over the flag’s placement has a long history in South Carolina. It was originally flown atop the Capitol during the administration of Gov. Fritz Hollings, a Democrat, in 1962 as the civil rights movement gained steam, ostensibly to mark the centennial of the Civil War. There was a push in the late 1990s to take it down, but the flag continued to fly above South Carolina’s copper-domed Capitol until 2000, when a bipartisan agreement was reached to move it to a Confederate memorial nearby.”

In an appearance on the Fox Business Channel this past week, Coulter doubled-down on her criticism of the Democrats in connection with the Confederate flag controversy.

“I’m glad the Democrats have come out four-square against slavery. It’s taken awhile here. But if we’re going to remedy the sadness of the Confederate side in the Civil War, I think we need to abolish the Democratic Party. It’s a much more hateful symbol. Even after the North, i.e. Republicans, won that war and finally got Democrats to give up slavery, Democrats continued to discriminate against black people for another 100 years.”

To show how wrong Dems were about slavery, Jim Crow and racism, we must abolish the Dem party and it's symbols. It's offensive.

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) June 27, 2015

Coulter doesn’t just troll Democrats and liberals; she also trolls fellow Republicans. In the same FBN interview, the pundit chided South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley for calling for the Confederate flag to come down because she is an immigrant who “does not understand American history.” That assertion is incorrect, however; the GOP governor was born in South Carolina to immigrant parents from India. Ann Coulter has, to date, issued no retraction or clarification for that statement.

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