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    The ugliness that Trump and the Republicans created was clearly visible in NYC

    Kathleen William Posted on

    Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden was an affront to decency, an hours-long freak show that received full support from the Republican Party thanks to an appearance by House Speaker Mike Johnson.

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    At Donald Trump's racist, hate-filled rally at Madison Square Garden this weekend, the Republican Party experienced a glimpse of rock bottom and American voters got a glimpse of the babbling hell that awaits them if Trump wins re-election next week.

    The event was ugly, with racist jokes about Puerto Ricans and black people. It was strange, with appearances from wrestler Hulk Hogan, the now nearly penniless Rudy Giuliani, and a hack radio host who said of the Democratic Party: “The whole damn party, a bunch of degenerate, vile Jews, Jewish haters.”

    The rally was an affront to decency, an hours-long freak show that received full support from the Republican Party thanks to an appearance by House Speaker Mike Johnson. It sent shockwaves across the country, drawing condemnation even from Republican lawmakers and giving Trump's campaign headlines like:

    “Trump Rally Speakers Accuse Racial Slurs, Call Puerto Rico 'Island of Trash'”

    “Trump at the Garden: A final carnival full of grievances, misogyny and racism”

    “Trump MSG rally marked by racist phrases and hatred”

    Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden was a celebration of hate and conspiracy

    Trump's massive ego demanded a rally in New York City, even though New York is a reliably blue state. What the former president got was a self-inflicted October surprise that will shape him and the entire Republican Party from now until Election Day.

    Sunday's rally began with a supposed comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe, saying: “I don't know if you know this, but right now there's literally a floating island of trash in the middle of the ocean. I think it's called Puerto Rico.”

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    He added more racism: “And these Latinos love having babies too. Just know that. That's what they do. That's what they do. There is no pulling out. They don't do that.

    Hinchcliffe also spread lowest-common-denominator racism, talking about black people “carving watermelons” on Halloween.

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    Radio host Sid Rosenberg took the stage and called the Democrats “degenerates” and “lowlifes.” Fund manager Grant Cardone called Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris a “fake” and said: “She and her pimps will destroy our country.” Vile former Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson mocked the fact that Harris is biracial – her mother was Indian and her father Jamaican – calling her a “low IQ Samoan-Malaysian former California prosecutor.” Vampiric Trump lackey Stephen Miller menacingly condemned immigrants, saying, “America is for Americans only.”

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    At one point, the crowd at Madison Square Garden began mocking Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, by chanting “Tampon Tim!”

    Trump showed up at MSG and made things worse

    As Trump took the stage, he continued the madness by repeating his un-American claims that those who do not support him are “the enemy within,” saying, “For nine years we have been fighting the darkest and gloomiest. “corrupt powers on earth.”

    He called Harris “a low IQ person” and went off the rails saying the United States is “now an occupied country.”

    He called the media the “enemy of the people” and, perhaps most frighteningly, spoke of anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. becoming part of his administration: “I'm going to let him rage on health. I'll let him let off steam while eating. I’m going to let him go wild with medication.”

    Trump's rally was a gift for Harris and the Democrats

    In total, it was more than five hours of anger, conspiracies, veiled and not at all veiled racism and snarling, no-nonsense nonsense. It was a glimpse into the abyss of shame that the Republican Party has plunged into with its slavish devotion to Trump. It was objectively a political disaster that alienated large swaths of voters, from the Puerto Rican community to the black community to the community of “people who don’t think terrible people should be elected.”

    So now we have another week in which the Republicans will be completely defined by this hateful moron, this convicted felon, who they willingly joined through the mud for a long time. The party clearly showed America and the world that this was a big tent, far from a circus.

    The question now is whether voters will watch clips of Sunday's rally, hear the righteous outrage and be repulsed.

    Is this chaos and cruelty what they want for the next four years? Is that us? Should Trump's obnoxious personality be the face of America?

    If your answers to these questions are “no,” “no,” and “hell no,” I have a suggestion: keep the vile images of that rally in your mind and vote so hard your arm hurts.

    Follow USA TODAY columnist Rex Huppke on X, formerly Twitter, @RexHuppke and Facebook facebook.com/RexIsAJerk

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