Trump's MSG rally just preview of what he has planned

By Sid Schwab / Herald Columnist

At New York’s Madison Square Garden, Donald Trump abandoned all pretense. He as much as said to those who call him a fascist, “Yes I am, and I’m so sure my voters want it that I’ve gathered the greatest collection of profane, nasty, lying authoritarianism-lovers ever assembled. I’ll ride it to November 5 and as far beyond as necessary to get what I’m owed.”

After that fascist jamboree (Bulwark: tinyurl.com/seeMSG4u), Trump’s mouthpieces spent the next day doing damage control: the “joke” about Puerto Rico being garbage “doesn’t represent our views,” his campaign tested. But it does. They’d seen and approved that guy’s script, removing only one word (Bulwark: tinyurl.com/oneword4u). Also, recall that Trump delayed help for two years after Hurricane Maria devastated the island. When he finally showed up, he tossed paper towels like dropping pennies into a beggar’s bucket. That’s what represents his views. The day after the Garden’s cesspool of nonstop negativity, Trump ignored the Puerto Rico insult and called it “a lovefest” (Daily Beast: tinyurl.com/cesspool4u).

Team Trump selected each of those speakers, including the scumlord whose profane, foul screed against Hillary Clinton (is she running?) ought to have offended at least some of the cultists in attendance. Instead, there were cheers of delight.

None of the participants disavowed the unending invective. Trump upped the pollution with his usual lies about FEMA, Kamala Harris, immigrants and voting, adding his Hitlerian “enemies within” incitement. Plus attacks on the press and promises to prosecute anyone who disagrees with him. It’s unimaginable that that hate-filled display attracted undecided voters. Aimed strictly at his base, it wasn’t intended to. Hopefully, it turned away not only Puerto Rican Americans but anyone with at least a thimbleful of decency.

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