Yes, charging Trump under a post-Civil War statute designed to stop the KKK from terrorizing newly-enfranchised Southern Blacks is insane. Just like charging him under a 1917 “espionage” law was insane. Charging him with defrauding *himself* under NY State penal code: also insane

This latest indictment is completely insane. They have literally charged Trump under the Civil Rights Act of 1866

In 1870, a chief proponent of these post-Civil War measures, Sen. John Pool of North Carolina, said the purpose was to prevent the Ku Klux Klan from coercing newly-enfranchised Black voters in the South to vote for KKK-backed candidates