Source: The Bulwark
by William Kristol
“It was quite the hate fest the Trump campaign put on last night at Madison Square Garden. Some ‘comedian,’ selected and vetted by the Trump campaign, warmed up the crowd: ‘There’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.’ Just to make sure people didn’t miss the point, he also crudely mocked Latino Americans in general, and ‘joked’ about black Americans carving watermelons instead of pumpkins this Halloween. … Leading Trumpist thinker Tucker Carlson weighed in later, explaining there was no way ‘a Samoan Malaysian low-IQ’ candidate like Kamala Harris could win 85 million votes. … This wasn’t Trump appearing at an event sponsored by a wacky local party or a goofy affiliated group, where the crazed speakers were locally produced farm-to-table types. This was 100 percent Grade-A Trumpism. This is what they wanted people to see.” (10/28/24)