Wisconsin Congresswoman Gwen Moore is now equating policy differences with lynching.

According to multiple media reports, Moore told reporters on a conference call Monday that Scott Walker’s policies were “tightening the noose, literally, around African Americans.”

Anyone who has followed Gwen Moore knows that she can often get away with saying just about anything. It’s laughed off as “Gwen being Gwen.”

But consider the type of rehtoric that has emerged against Gov. Walker and his policies in just the last year.

In the heat of the 2014 campaign, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said,”Scott Walker has given women the back of his hand. I know that is stark. I know that is direct. But that is reality.”

But Wasserman Schultz didn’t stop there.

“What Republican tea party extremists like Scott Walker are doing is they are grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back. It is not going to happen on our watch,” Wasserman Schultz said.

And during the budget debate over education policies and funding, State Sen. Lena Taylor said Republican policies were “raping the children of MPS.”

Now, Moore invokes the noose.

Many times political correctness goes too far in censoring our speech and debate. And often, civility and tolerance are used as the buzzwords to kill legitimate debate or distract from the issues. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a legitimate need for decorum in our political dialogue. In less than a year, representatives of one political party have compared Scott Walker’s policies to domestic abuse, child rape, and now lynching.

None have suffered any career consequences.

This ought to be unacceptable. And we don’t even have to play the “if this were a Republican” game. It’s cheap. It’s crass. And it is up to liberals and the Democratic Party to police this type of ugly rhetoric if they want to be taken seriously.