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Digby last night featured just a few of the racist quotes. (They even played “Dixie” before Byron Donalds walked on.) But know this. Trump long ago stopped trying to win this election on Nov. 5. He plans to take it by force afterwards. Rick Wilson knows it. So should you. The only way to keep us from that is by making Nov. 5 “a real knockout.”
Last night’s New York rally and Trump’s others in states he has no chance of winning are not about winning on Nov. 5. They are about keeping the spotlight on himself, about turning the volume up to 12, about signalling what he wants his followers to do when he loses. He’s doubling down on what he and his co-conspirators failed at in 2021.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells “Morning Joe” they are “mini January 6 rallies … mini Stop the Steal rallies” meant to prime his base for more post-election violence.
Trump’s campaign deliberately chose Madison Square Garden for the callback to the pro-Nazi German American Bund rally from 1939. Trump adviser Stephen Miller, of course, did not disappoint on that score.
“America is for Americans and Americans only,” Miller shouted after insisting that all those he deems undesirables would be deported. Natürlich, he decides who is an American. John Pavlovitz quipped on FKA Twitter, “Stephen Miller’s pronouns are He/Himmler.”
This is where Trump and Miller want to take this country. Everyone else they deem undesirable they mean to take elsewhere. Forcefully.
Trump’s MAGA movement is a shrinking demographic. But don’t let that fool you into thinking that it’s not a harmful one. They’re signalling harm at every opportunity. The only way they might have made that clearer was if they’d broadcast the rally in black and white.