Remember Trump's MSG Rally When You Vote

Millions of Americans witnessed Trump  sponsoring a Nazi like rally  in Madison Square Garden on October 27th.

Madison Square Garden was also the site of thousands of virulent anti-Semites, Nazi sympathizers and other white supremacists eighty-five years ago on February 20, 1939.  Not a coincidence.

Trump’s event was packed and went on for hours as his rallies are wont to do. The speakers were crude, rude, vulgar and insulting.

The carnival like behavior included:

*Grant Cardone, a private equity manager and, for one night at least, a man of the people, described Harris as a prostitute whose “pimp handlers” would “destroy our country.” 

*Dr.Phil McGraw, Mr. DEI himself who owes his fame to a Black woman, Oprah Winfrey, brazenly and arrogantly attacking and deriding DEI Programs.

*Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News anchor who  last month who hosted Darryl Cooper, a Holocaust denier on his web show (describing him as the “most honest” historian in America), mocked Harris’ racial background while laying the groundwork for a second MAGA insurrection.

 The verbal carnage continued. Right wing radio host Sid Rosenberg referred to Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff as a “crappy Jew,” maintaining decorum (sarcasm) by saying, “She is some sick b***ard, that Hillary Clinton. What a sick son of a b**ch. The whole f***ng party. A bunch of degenerates. Low lives, Jew-haters, and low lives. Every one of ’em. Every one of ‘em.” 

Yes, you read that correctly! So much for having class.

 David Rem, supposedly a childhood friend of Trump’s (this has been disputed shouted “Kamala Harris is the devil! She is the Antichrist!”

Disgraced mayor and politician Rudy Giuliani shamelessly slammed Palestinians: The Palestinians are taught to kill us at two years old. They won’t let a Palestinian in Jordan. in Egypt. And Harris wants to bring them to you. 

Trump’s transition chief, Howard Lutnick, screamed “we must crush Jihad!” and waxed on about the 1890s when America was supposedly “great” while Trump’s top adviser Steven Miller chillingly echoed 1939 vibes with his statement that “America is for Americans!”

Conspiracy crank RFK Jr. was also in attendance ranting about the “corruption at the CDC, the FDA, the NIH and the CIA.” Trump made it clear that “I’m gonna let him go wild on health. I’m gonna let him go wild on the food. I’m gonna let him go wild on the medicines.”

And Tucker Carlson took the stage to huge applause, laughing maniacally and delivering a crude, racist, xenophobic insult toward Kamala Harris.

There was one particularly venomous and hostile speech given by a “self-described comedian” at the start of the event, Tony Hinchcliffe who is the host of a popular podcast. He got the whole event rolling with this line: “There’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico” He continued his bigoted tirade making a racially charged comment about hanging out with a Black friend and "instead of carving pumpkins, they carved watermelons." There were other inflammatory and disturbing examples. Indeed, staging such a perverse event is nothing short of despicable. 

To be sure, like most Americans, I am concerned about high grocery prices, price gouging by companies and other forms of economic excess. That being said, I am also concerned about  the preservation of our democracy which is the paramount issue of the moment. This is why Republicans who support Vice President Harris recognize that this election is about something more basic than simple partisan interest. It is about absolute principles that extend beyond party. Donald Trump wants to rule the nation under an autocracy. 

Vice President Harris wants to represent a nation where everyone has access to diversity, equality, and opportunity, and where pluralism is available to everyone regardless of their race, gender, religion, socioeconomic background, etc not being stifled and prohibited from doing so because of such factors. Thus, Vice President Kamala Harris is the only feasible choice for president.