The definition of Lynch Law is: an attempt by the commons to target an individual for punishment, outside a legal process. To put it in the mob's own terms: to hold that individual to account. If the mob is particularly riled up against the legal process itself, to hold him "accountable".
Hannah Bruns, recently elected student body president at Vanderbilt, doesn't like the word "mob". That's because the mob got her "elected", by hounding her rival out of the running.
The Greeks had a word for this sort of ruler.
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