"The rally will almost certainly alienate more voters who might have voted for Trump and it is hard to imagine it has earned him one single new vote. (Unless there is a Franz Liebkind somewhere who has been too busy writing 'Springtime for Hitler' to have paid attention to the campaign until now.)"
#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #hate #MadisonSquareGarden
/23
"But worse still, unlike the Bund rally, Trump’s was not a fringe affair. It was led by a former President of the United States on behalf of very nearly half of the American people."
#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #hate #MadisonSquareGarden
/24
Parker Molloy does a run-down of coverage of Trump's hate rally at Madison Square Garden, and concludes:
"It looks like major news outlets have finally decided to call things as they are—at least for now. Over the weekend, reporting on Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden marked a significant shift in how the press portrays political events, particularly those that descend into hate-filled spectacle."
#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #hate #MadisonSquareGarden
/25
https://www.readtpa.com/p/no-more-euphemisms-media-gets-real
"At his Madison Square Garden rally, Trump’s argument was hate and fear. ...
As an encapsulation of what Trump stands for as a candidate, and what he would bring to office, the rally was an effective medium for his closing message."
~ David A. Graham
#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #hate #MadisonSquareGarden
/26
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-madison-square-garden-rally/680424/
"This, perhaps even more than his reprehensible immigrant bashing and fascist overtones, is Trump’s closing argument: to put women back in their place and restore men to total supremacy in America."
~ Susan Milligan
#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #hate #MadisonSquareGarden #misogyny #MaleEntitlement
/27
https://newrepublic.com/article/187419/trumps-promise-young-men-retribution-against-women
"Drawing frequent comparisons to the pro-Nazi rally held there in 1939, the rally was filled with racist, crude, and incendiary rhetoric. ...
And yet, around half of Americans plan to vote for him.
Even more troubling, 82% of white evangelicals plan to vote for this."
~ Kristin Du Mez
#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #hate #MadisonSquareGarden #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #WhiteEvangelicals
/28
"Ironically, extremist movements within secure democracies are usually the ones actually destined for the garbage heap. That results from a simple fact: In order to keep the show going and the money flowing, extremism has to keep out-extreming itself. In an attention economy like this one, the effect can be even more pronounced."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #hate #MadisonSquareGarden
/29
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/punching-your-own-maga-face
