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    The ugliness that Trump and the GOP created was on full display in NYC

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    Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden was an affront to decency, an hour-long freak show that was fully endorsed by the Republican Party thanks to an appearance by House Speaker Mike Johnson.

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    Donald Trump’s racist, hateful rally at Madison Square Garden this weekend gave the Republican Party a glimpse into rock bottom, and American voters got a glimpse of the rippling hell that awaits them if Trump is re-elected next week.

    The event was ugly, with racist jokes about Puerto Ricans and black people. It was weird, with appearances by wrestler Hulk Hogan, the now nearly penniless Rudy Giuliani, and some hack radio host who said of the Democratic Party, “The whole damn party, a bunch of degenerates, lowlifes, Jew-haters.”

    The rally was an affront to decency, an hour-long freak show fully endorsed by the Republican party thanks to an appearance by House Speaker Mike Johnson. It sent shockwaves across the country, even drawing condemnation from Republican lawmakers and earning Trump campaign headlines like:

    “Trump rally speakers use racial slurs and call Puerto Rico ‘island of trash’”

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

    ‘Trump MSG rally marked by racist tropes and vitriol’

    Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden was a festival of hate and conspiracy

    Trump’s enormous 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 surprise in October, one that will define him and the entire Republican Party from now until Election Day.

    Sunday’s meeting started with a so-called comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe, saying: “I don’t know if you know this, but there is literally a floating island of rubbish in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.”

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    He continued with more racism: “And these Latinos like to make babies too. Just know that. They do. They do. There is no pulling out. They don’t.” He went on to twist that garbage into an explicit sexual joke.

    Hinchcliffe also aired 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 Democrats “degenerates” and “lowlifes,” fund manager Grant Cardone called Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris “fake” and said that “she and her pimps will destroy our country.” Disgusting former Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson mocked the fact that Harris is biracial — her mother was Indian and her father Jamaican — calling her a “Samoan-Malaysian former prosecutor from California with a low IQ.” Vampiric Trump lackey Stephen Miller ominously denounced immigrants, saying, “America is only for Americans and Americans.”

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    At one point, the crowd at Madison Square Garden began to jeer Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, chanting “Tampon Tim!”

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    Once Trump took the stage, he continued his madness, repeating his un-American claims that those who do not support him are “the enemy within” and saying, “For the past nine years, we have been fighting the most sinister and corrupt forces on earth.”

    He called Harris “a low IQ individual” and said, completely unhinged, that the United States “is now an occupied country.”

    He labeled the media “the enemy of the people” and, perhaps scariest of all, talked about the fact that anti-vaccine nut Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be part of his government: “I’m going to let him loose on his health. I let him go wild with the food. I’m going to let him go on medication.’

    Trump’s rally was a gift to Harris and the Democrats

    In total it was over five hours of anger, conspiracies, veiled and not at all veiled racism, and snarling, base nonsense. It was a look into the pit of shame the Republican Party has fallen into with its slavish devotion to Trump. It was, objectively speaking, a political disaster that alienated huge swaths of voters, from the Puerto Rican community to the black community and the community of “people who don’t think terrible people should be elected.”

    So we’re left with another week in which Republicans will be completely defined by this hateful buffoon, by this convicted felon with whom they have happily joined for a long drag through the mud. The party clearly showed America and the world that it is a big tent that is not a circus.

    The question now is whether voters will watch clips of Sunday’s rally, hear the righteous outrage and feel rejected.

    Is that chaos and brutality what they want for the next four years? Is that us? Should Trump’s traitorous personality be the face of America?

    If your answers to these questions are “no,” “no,” and “not at all,” I have a suggestion: keep the despicable images of that meeting in your mind and vote so loudly it makes your arm hurt.

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

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