"Having a rally at Madison Square Garden, in the Nazi tradition, is a sure way for Trump to drive media attention to himself at a time when he is low on energy, incoherent, and falling asleep at his own events —and thus more desperate and dangerous than ever."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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Trump Channels Nazism's Aesthetics, Führer Cult, and WorldView

From Waco, Texas to Madison Square Garden, evoking and normalizing Fascism is the goal.

^{Ruth Ben-Ghiat (Lucid)}

"It is the staging and the theatrics that he most cares about: the form rather than the content. He knows that everyone watching and attending knows that he is re-enacting a Nazi show."

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"I've seen privileged people of awareness cheer themselves that if Trump and his Republican Nazis win, then at least the people in the red states, who did not vote as we did, will feel the most harm first—ignoring that the harm in these places will come first to those who were already most threatened, the same people whose lives we have, from our yard signs and bumper stickers, claimed matter."

~ A.R. Moxon

#Trump #fascism
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Out Damned Spot

Reasons and excuses, position and fault, responsibility and blame, inheritance and elections. Seeking cheap absolutions and blameless ignorance from the heart of the empire.

^{A.R. Moxon (The Reframe)}

"Donald Trump hosted a rally featuring crude and racist insults at New York's Madison Square Garden Sunday, turning what his campaign had dubbed as the event where he would deliver his closing message into an illustration of what turns off his critics."

~ Jill Colvin and Michelle L. Price

#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #MadisonSquareGarden
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"With just over a week before Election Day, speakers labeled Puerto Rico a 'floating island of garbage,' called Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris 'the devil,' and said the woman vying to become the first woman and Black woman president had begun her career as a prostitute."

#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #MadisonSquareGarden
/6

"Before Mr. Trump had even taken the stage, warm-up speakers had called Puerto Rico an 'island of garbage,' referred to Ms. Harris as 'the devil' and 'the Antichrist,' and made racist or derogatory remarks about Latinos generally, African Americans, Palestinians and Jews."

~ Erica L. Green

#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #MadisonSquareGarden
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