Politico: We watched 20 Trump rallies. His racist, anti-immigrant messaging is getting darker.

[Dennis Donovan]

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As Trump's messaging gets darker and darker, the stakes get higher and higher.

America won't be America anymore if he wins.

4:25 PM · Oct 12, 2024

Politico (archived) We watched 20 Trump rallies. His racist, anti-immigrant messaging is getting darker.

A POLITICO analysis of more than 20 of his rallies and campaign events shows Trump has demonized minority groups in all of them.

By Myah Ward
10/12/2024 01:44 PM EDT

Donald Trump vowed to “rescue” the Denver suburb of Aurora, Colorado, from the rapists, “blood thirsty criminals,” and “most violent people on earth” he insists are ruining the “fabric” of the country and its culture: immigrants.

Trump’s message in Aurora, a city that has become a central part of his campaign speeches in the final stretch to Election Day, marks another example of how the former president has escalated his xenophobic and racist rhetoric against migrants and minority groups he says are genetically predisposed to commit crimes. The supposed threat migrants pose is the core part of the former president’s closing argument, as he promises his base that he’s the one who can save the country from a group of people he calls “animals,” “stone cold killers,” the “worst people,” and the “enemy from within.”

He is no longer just talking about keeping immigrants out of the country, building a wall and banning Muslims from entering the United States. Trump now warns that migrants have already invaded, destroying the country from inside its borders, which he uses as a means to justify a second-term policy agenda that includes building massive detention camps and conducting mass deportations.

In his lengthy speech Friday, Trump delivered a broadside against the thousands of Venezuelan migrants in Aurora. And he declared that he would use the Alien Enemies Act, which allows a president to authorize rounding up or removing people who are from enemy countries in times of war, to pursue migrant gangs and criminal networks.

“Kamala [Harris] has imported an army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals from the dungeons of the third world … from prisons and jails and insane asylums and mental institutions, and she has had them resettled beautifully into your community to prey upon innocent American citizens,” he said.

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[kimbutgar]

1. He going to call his supporters to harm voters waiting in line to vote in Democratic areas

He’s desperate and I wouldn’t put it past him !

Will Merrick Garland do anything about that?

[Cha]

2. Getting Darker like the Sick Fuck.

How Awful to have to watch that Hideous Garbage 🤢👿

[Kittycatkat]

3. I hope trump will soon remove his own rapist, criminal ass from the good ol' USA.

[Lovie777]

4. But the media keeps protecting him. They know about his mental decline...................

and say nothing. They know about the violence and hatred spewed and say nothing. If violence commences during, after the election, the blame is on shithole, corporate media both oral and written, GQP/RWers.

[bdamomma]

5. He is

also lashing out on cities, Detroit, Aurora, Springfield Ohio, he is going to get people killed if he keeps this up. He is threat to others, a reason to have mental intervention and detain him.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. 'Actual Nazi sentiments': Review of recent Trump rallies unearths two alarming trends

TFG is going full NAZI.

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https://www.rawstory.com/hitler-and-the-nazis-trump/

Former President Donald Trump has ramped up his campaign rhetoric by taking it back to a terrifying time in global history — 1930s Germany, experts told Politico Saturday.

Trump's claims that migrants have "bad genes" and will "cut your throat" mimic the lies and feed on the prejudices that scholars say Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler exploited ahead of the Holocaust.

“What is so jarring to me is these are not just Nazi-like statements," said Robert Jones, founder of the Public Religion Research Institute. "These are actual Nazi sentiments.".....

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University, told Politico she believed this was just the next step of a process that began when Trump mounted his first presidential campaign nearly a decade ago.

“He’s been taking Americans and his followers on a journey since really 2015...instilling hatred in a group, and then escalating,” said Ben-Ghiat.

“Now [immigrants are] animals who are going to kill us or eat our pets or eat us,” she continued. “That’s how you get people to feel that whatever is done to them, as in mass deportation, rounding them up, putting them in camps, is OK.”

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Maddowblog-Trump suggests using the military to address 'the enemy from within'

After referring to his American opponents as "scum," the Republican candidate suggested possibly using the military to respond to "the enemy from within."

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-suggests-using-military-address-enemy-rcna175255

Donald Trump broke new ground in his criticisms of Americans last year when the former president released a video in which he argued, among other things, “[T]he greatest threat to Western Civilization today is not Russia. It’s probably, more than anything else, ourselves and some of the horrible, U.S.A.-hating people that represent us.”

Months later, in a Veterans Day message, the Republican not only referred to many Americans as “vermin” — phrasing that echoed Hitler and Mussolini — he concluded, “The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave, than the threat from within.”.....

That was new, but it wasn’t the most unsettling comment on the subject. The Washington Post reported:

Former president Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday that he is worried about the prospect of unspecified actions by what he dubbed “radical left lunatics” on Election Day, urging that the National Guard or U.S. military be deployed on American soil against those he labeled “the enemy from within.”

.....In the next breath, in an apparent reference to Election Day concerns, the Republican concluded, “It should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard — or if really necessary, by the military, because they can’t let that happen.”

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.....Trump, meanwhile, has gone from describing many Americans as “evil” to condemning them as “vermin” to equating them with the foreign enemies to labeling them “the enemy from within” — who might even warrant some kind of military response.

Eight years later, “basket of deplorables” seems almost quaint.