In yet another example of the ratcheting up of rhetoric as the 2016 campaign enters its home stretch, a prominent and polarizing Donald Trump supporter has suggested the time may come for "pitchforks and torches."

"It's incredible that our institutions of gov, WH, Congress, DOJ and big media are corrupt," tweeted Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, Sheriff David Clarke Jr. on Saturday. "Pitchforks and torches time."

Clarke, an African-American, delivered a fiery address at this summer Republican National Convention, during which he announced the news the acquittal of one of the police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray to rapturous applause.

He has been very vocal on social media, repeating Trump talking points about the alleged corruption of the Clintons and their foundation, and railing against the Black Lives Matter movement, which he claims is responsible for violence against police officers.