At Madison Square Garden on Sunday: A diseased idea of America

“I don’t think anybody has ever seen anything like what happened the other night at Madison Square Garden,” Donald Trump said of his racist, misogynistic rally Sunday. “The love in that room, it was breathtaking. … It was like a lovefest, an absolute lovefest.”

Breathtaking, yes. Love, no.

A supposed comedian denigrated Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage” and said Latinos “love making babies” so much that “they come inside, just like they did to our country.” He talked about how he and a Black friend had “carved watermelons” together.

Another speaker warned that Vice President Kamala Harris and “her pimp handlers will destroy our country.” A third termed the Democratic presidential nominee the Antichrist, while Tucker Carlson demeaned her as “Samoan-Malaysian-low-I.Q.”

Trump adviser Stephen Miller declared that “America is for Americans — and Americans only.” The soundtrack featured “Dixie,” the Confederate anthem.

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