This wasn’t an accident. It was the point. It’s what MAGA was built on—a message to the white, the bitter, and the fearful that their ginned up anger is a rallying cry, a political stance, and a weapon. It's a promise that America belongs to them and no one else. It’s why Trump’s rallies don’t even try to reach beyond his hardcore base. The sad part is that, for as many reasonably-minded people as he'll lose because of this abomination, he'll gain just as many who want nothing more than a fourth Reich.
An Open Letter to Your Friend or Relative Planning to Vote for Trump: Your Vote for Trump Is an Endorsement of Bigotry, Cruelty, and the Erosion of Rights—No Matter the Reason You Give.
"[Hinchcliffe] had a joke calling [Vice President Kamala] Harris a 'cunt,'" a campaign insider involved in the discussions about the event told The Bulwark. "Let's say it was a red flag."
I’m guessing you read the relevant Bulwark piece, but I share this superb observation from it:
“Willis Reed was a black man from Louisiana who’d attended Grambling, the famed historically black college. His teammates included Bill Bradley, a Princeton and Oxford-educated Midwestern banker’s son; Dave DeBusschere, a Catholic kid from Detroit; and Walt Frazier, who learned basketball on a dirt playground at his all-black segregated Atlanta school. The Knicks coach was Red Holzman, born on New York’s Lower East Side in 1920, the son of Jewish immigrants from Romania and Russia. That America is the America some of us see when we think of Madison Square Garden.“
I did Barth, thanks. It jogged my memory as I read it, though I could not pretend to be as eloquent as Bill Kristol and Andre Egger, so I didn't even try!
Make America Hate Again
This wasn’t an accident. It was the point. It’s what MAGA was built on—a message to the white, the bitter, and the fearful that their ginned up anger is a rallying cry, a political stance, and a weapon. It's a promise that America belongs to them and no one else. It’s why Trump’s rallies don’t even try to reach beyond his hardcore base. The sad part is that, for as many reasonably-minded people as he'll lose because of this abomination, he'll gain just as many who want nothing more than a fourth Reich.
An Open Letter to Your Friend or Relative Planning to Vote for Trump: Your Vote for Trump Is an Endorsement of Bigotry, Cruelty, and the Erosion of Rights—No Matter the Reason You Give.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-150725410?r=4d7sow&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Very powerful. Thanks for sharing.
All the filth was on teleprompter…. Therefore no surprise to the disgraceful Republicans running that show.
By their fruits shall ye know them.
Willis Reed is rolling in his grave.
And there is this disaster narrowly avoided:
"[Hinchcliffe] had a joke calling [Vice President Kamala] Harris a 'cunt,'" a campaign insider involved in the discussions about the event told The Bulwark. "Let's say it was a red flag."
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-shock-comic-was-set-to-call
5th rate comedian gets a huge gig with a national TV audience. Gets everybody's attention and mucho publicity. Mission Accomplished.
Although in this case, the old adage that all publicity is good publicity does not apply.
I’m guessing you read the relevant Bulwark piece, but I share this superb observation from it:
“Willis Reed was a black man from Louisiana who’d attended Grambling, the famed historically black college. His teammates included Bill Bradley, a Princeton and Oxford-educated Midwestern banker’s son; Dave DeBusschere, a Catholic kid from Detroit; and Walt Frazier, who learned basketball on a dirt playground at his all-black segregated Atlanta school. The Knicks coach was Red Holzman, born on New York’s Lower East Side in 1920, the son of Jewish immigrants from Romania and Russia. That America is the America some of us see when we think of Madison Square Garden.“
Amen.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/a-hatefest-at-the-garden
I did Barth, thanks. It jogged my memory as I read it, though I could not pretend to be as eloquent as Bill Kristol and Andre Egger, so I didn't even try!