The day after Trump’s Madison Square Garden, the media reacted with shock to the raw racism and misogyny on display. The New York Times reported:
Former President Donald J. Trump sought to head off the major speech Vice President Kamala Harris was planning to deliver Tuesday night by casting her as responsible for all of the nation’s ills while also attempting to draw attention away from bigoted and racist remarks at his rally in New York.
Two days after he hosted a rally at Madison Square Garden where several speakers made racist and vulgar statements, Mr. Trump accused Ms. Harris of running “a campaign of absolute hate.”
Mr. Trump then headed to Pennsylvania, a crucial battleground state, for two campaign stops. Ms. Harris is expected to speak at the Ellipse, the same park near the White House where Mr. Trump marshaled his supporters to descend on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The setting for Ms. Harris’s remarks will provide her campaign with a symbolic moment to go along with its increasingly blunt warnings about the dangers posed by Mr. Trump, who Democrats say is unstable and will run roughshod over democratic norms if he returns to the White House.
Mr. Trump’s allies have shown anxiety that the backlash to the Madison Square Garden event, and descriptions of him as a racist and a fascist, may be breaking through to segments of voters in battleground states. On Tuesday, however, the former president sought to attack Ms. Harris with the very accusations he himself has been facing, telling a group of supporters and reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida that her message “has been a message of hate and division.”
In his remarks, Mr. Trump continued to push back against criticisms of his rally — which he called, unprompted, “an absolute love fest” — mocking Democrats who have pointed out that a pro-Nazi rally was held at Madison Square Garden in 1939.
Election Day is one week from today. Here’s what else to know:
- Madison Square Garden rally fallout: Republicans moved swiftly to distance themselves from remarks disparaging Puerto Rico made by the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who was one of the opening speakers at Mr. Trump’s New York rally. The island’s Republican Party chairman is demanding an apology, and the Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny stepped up his condemnation of the remarks on Tuesday.
- Hinting at a vulgar taunt: An ad from Elon Musk’s PAC refers to Ms. Harris as a “C Word” — eventually calling her a “communist” — in an allusion to an insult against women that is one of the most obscene words in American English.
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The gaslighting is through the roof. Trump learned well from keeping Mein Kampf on his night stand.
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Probably never read it though.
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He didn’t need to read Mein Kampf–it principles are written on his soul, probably by Roy Cohen. (Cohn?)
In other news, it WAS a love fest from Trump’s view–it was all about kissing his ring and doing his dirt. The sieve around his brain won’t let anything else in. CBK
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I insert a dose of reality into this far Left bubble.
https://spectator.org/if-trump-is-such-a-nazi-why-do-80-percent-of-orthodox-jews-support-him/
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Jay Comstock,
Orthodox Jews support Trump because they are right wingers like him. They oppose abortion. They are religious zealots. They do not believe that women have the same rights as men.
Most Jews register as Democrats and consider themselves liberal.
Only 1 of 10 Jews is orthodox.
Between 70-80% of the Jewish vote will go to Kamala Harris. Jews oppose racists, sexists, and homophobes.
Your source is a rightwing publication.
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The author’s point is that the type of Jews who were most persecuted by Hitler don’t see Trump as a Nazi supporter.
What difference does it make if the source is right-wing if the facts are accurate? You constantly demean yourself with ad hominem attacks like this, which should be beneath someone who was once a serious scholar.
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Orthodox Jews share the same values as Trump. They will vote for him, but 70-80% of Jews will vote for Kamala. Orthodox are only 10% of Jews. Those are facts, not ad hominem.
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Orthodox Jews agree more with Trump politically than they agree with Harris, so they will vote for him in large numbers. If they believed that Trump is a Nazi, would they still vote for him?
The point about ad hominem refers to your labeling the publication as rightwing. Your implication is that their political orientation automatically discredits them on factual matters. Even you should see the logical fallacy involved here.
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I used to subscribe to the Spectator when I was a conservative. I know what kind of publication it is and who writes for it. I choose my words with care.
I am a Jew and I think Trump admires Hitler and hangs out with actual American NeoNazis.
When Nazis marched in Charlottesville, chanting “Jews will not replace us,” Trump said there were “fine people” on both sides. I didn’t see any fine people on the fascist, anti-Semitic side.
Jay, are you a Jew also? Or do you just like to pontificate about other people’s religion?
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A story. This comes from a Jewish friend.
His family was saved from the Holocaust by immigration to the US. His grandfather was a proud soldier who had been decorated with the Iron Cross in the Great War. This elderly gentleman loved Hitler, discounting all of his fear mongering and focusing only on his adulation of Germany. His family was less blinded by the Nazi lies, and they took him out of Germany before the final solution against his will.
Nationalism puts blinders on us all.
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Trump, who became a traitor on January 6, 2021, also calls what happened that day, a day of love.
Trump once called Jan. 6 a ‘heinous attack.’ Now he calls it a ‘day of love.’
Trump says Jan. 6 was a “day of love,” glossing over his supporters’ assault on officers – CBS News
Trump promises to ‘free’ Jan. 6 rioters on first day back in White House if reelected – ABC News
To fascists like the convicted rapist, fraud and felon, hate means love.
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