The Mob Who Loved The Swastika!


The outrageous display in Madison Square Garden last night was a new low point in the history of the United States. In outright imitation of a Nazi rally held in the Garden in 1939 in support of Hitler's Germany, we get an official Republican Party event intentionally designed to resemble it now in the Fall of 2024. Of course, at the head of this dark discourse was our very own "Sweet Potato Hitler" -- Donald Trump. He wanted to give New York City a fresh black eye I suppose and at the same time bellow to his critics that he was still relevant. 

And tragically it's the truth. With too many crimes to list and too many scandals to monitor, the leader of the Republican Party spews his hate, assisted by a phalanx of fellow haters, folks with big mouths and black hearts. In place of Hitler's Jews, we have Haitian migrants, here legally. Instead of fomenting hate against the Romani, we see hate intended to scare Hispanics. "Send Them Back!" has become the "Build That Wall!" of this latest vile campaign. Puerile nativism at its ugliest. 


But without question the moment of the night came long before Trump took the podium when a "comedian" proclaimed that there was an "Island of Garbage" in the middle of the ocean, and it was named Puerto Rico -- an American territory. All the F-Bombs, insults, and lies that were to follow had a hard time topping that piece of rancid rhetoric. I'm a defender of transgressive comedy and this was certainly that, except it failed in one important regard -- it wasn't funny -- not even a little bit.  

Like the Insurrection on January 6, 2020, Trump and his lowlife cronies have given the nation another dark day to record. When this gang of malcontents are washed away by time, these critical low points moments will be recorded. Like the Nazi Rally so many decades ago which is seen with shame today, so too will this latest debacle be understood to be a time when a hateful madness overtook too many Americans still mired in the racism which has sadly been a feature of our history. Either that, or we're all fucked. (Don't blame me, they said it first.)

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  1. Colin JonesOctober 28, 2024 at 7:14 AM

    The rest of the world will never take America seriously as a democracy ever again if Trump wins. For decades America was supposed to be the world's leading democracy but how can that possibly continue if America is led by someone who only believes in democracy as long as HE wins? Someone who has a string of criminal convictions and who tried to organise a coup to overturn the 2020 election then encouraged a mob to rampage through Congress. How can America preach to other countries about the value of democracy when led by someone like that?

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