Atlantic Magazine Compares Violent Democrat Who Caned Senator in 1856 to Trump

[pjcomix]

The foul odor of TDS is definitely in the air when the editor of the Washington Monthly, published on the pages of Friday's Atlantic magazine website, can somehow connect the actions of an enraged Democrat congressman in 1856 caning anti-slavery Republican Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the Senate to President Donald Trump.

The author of the hit piece incorporating an incident from a couple of centuries ago is careful to discount the idea of making historical comparisons but that was exactly what Rob Wolfe did in "The Vicious Beating That Reshaped America."

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2026/06/10/atlantic-magazine-compares-violent-democrat-who-caned-senator-1856