The effort to use Section 3 of the 14^th Amendment to prevent former President Donald Trump from appearing on ballots in various states across the country is already silly enough. Yet, people like professional race hustler Ibram X. Kendi still manage to find ways to make it even sillier.

In a thread on X, formerly known as Twitter, Kendi chimed in on the effort to disqualify Trump from the ballot, which is expected to go to the U.S. Supreme Court. He argues that if the court rules that states cannot remove the former president from the ballot, it will somehow mean the long-dead Confederacy would have somehow won in the long run.

If the SCOTUS refuses to disqualify Donald Trump from running for POTUS after leading an insurrection on January 6, 2021, then it will be the latest indication that the Confederates lost the military battles but won the legal war. 1/4 pic.twitter.com/QTrz5AAYrB

— Ibram X. Kendi (@ibramxk) December 29, 2023

He wrote:

If the SCOTUS refuses to disqualify Donald Trump from running for POTUS after leading an insurrection on January 6, 2021, then it will be the latest indication that the Confederates lost the military battles but won the legal war.

Kendi referenced the fact that the 14^th Amendment was originally intended to apply to former members of the Confederacy, to prevent them from attaining power in the government. He also noted comments made by a Confederate about the measure.

But as a neo-Confederate declared around that time during the war against Reconstruction, the 14th and 15th Amendments “may stand forever; but we intend. . .to make them dead letters.”

They are still executing these Amendments, now in black robes, polo shirts, and blue suits, while calling themselves “patriots.”

Kendi’s asinine comments come just after politically motivated actors in Maine’s government also barred Trump from the ballot.

On Thursday, Maine's Democrat Secretary of State decided that the former president was ineligible to seek office under Section Three of the 14th Amendment.

Maine’s Democratic secretary of state on Thursday removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause, becoming the first election official to take action unilaterally in a decision that has potential Electoral College consequences.

While Maine has just four electoral votes, it’s one of two states to split them. Trump won one of Maine’s electors in 2020, so having him off the ballot there should he emerge as the Republican general election candidate could have outsized implications in a race that is expected to be narrowly decided.

The move comes about a week after Colorado’s Supreme Court voted to remove Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment, although that decision was stayed Thursday. The state Republican party has vowed to take the fight to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The notion that allowing Trump to run for president would somehow mean the Confederacy won is absurd on its face. Does Kendi actually believe slavery will make a comeback if the Orange Man What Is Bad™ is on the ballot? Is it even possible that he truly believes that Trump being allowed on the ballot would be a win for those who fought to uphold slavery?

Of course, he doesn’t.

I don’t believe for a second that Kendi believes this, or even most of the bile he spews. There is absolutely no way he is dense enough to buy what he’s selling. But he is politically savvy enough to know that this claptrap sells – especially in the left-wing political scene. Unfortunately, there are too many people who actually do buy into the race grift.