With just four days until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump delivered their closing arguments to the American people, and the difference between these two competing views couldn’t be starker.

Harris looks ahead, with her most enduring campaign slogans calling on Americans to “turn the page” and assuring them “we’re not going back.” She promises to enshrine reproductive freedom into law, help first-time homeowners, clamp down on companies that see catastrophe as an opportunity to make a profit, and ensure people don’t face financial disaster while caring for their loved ones .

“For too long, America has been consumed by too much division, chaos and mutual distrust,” she said in a moving speech on the National Mall on Tuesday. “It is time for a new generation of leadership in America, and I am ready to provide that leadership as the next President of the United States of America.”

Then there’s Trump, whose campaign is looking to the past, whether indulging his long-held grudges or glorifying some of the darkest days in American history. During his hate-filled rally at Madison Square Garden this week, he doubled down on his fellow Americans by calling his countrymen the “enemy from within.”

“We are dealing with something much bigger than Joe or Kamala and much more powerful than them, namely a huge, cruel, crooked, radical left machine that runs today’s Democratic Party,” Trump declared. “They are indeed the enemy from within. But this is who we are fighting.”

Trump has vowed to use a 1798 law to deport millions of people on a scale never seen before in American history. He has vowed to arrest his political rivals and pardon those who tried to violently overthrow the peaceful transition of power. He has fanned the flames of people’s basest instincts instead of calling them to a cause greater than revenge.

That darkness came into focus this week when comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, standing above a stage decorated with the Trump-Vance campaign logo at their MSG rally, described Puerto Rico — a U.S. territory — as an “island of trash.” Hinchcliffe also made stupid comments about the reproductive habits of Latinos and advanced racist stereotypes about black Americans.

Although the campaign has condemned the so-called milquetoast jokes, Trump himself has not yet explicitly apologized.

The comments prompted a wave of messages of support for Harris from prominent Puerto Ricans such as Ricky Martin, Bad Bunny and Jennifer Lopez (and, incredibly, the retraction of a statement of support for Trump by reggaeton star Nicky Jam). Republican candidates for office tried to separate Hinchcliffe’s comments from the values ​​of the Republican Party. It didn’t take long for the Harris campaign to cut the comments into an ad.

The hatred is not limited to rhetoric; it is reflected in Republicans’ last-minute efforts to keep some Americans out of the electoral process.

Just Wednesday, the Supreme Court — including all three Trump-appointed justices — confirmed this lie by allowing Virginia to continue the purge of more than a thousand voters on suspicion that they are not citizens.

Last week, the chairman of the Lee County Republican Party instructed 1,800 volunteers from a so-called election protection group that “if you have people who were registered, and they’re missing information… and they were registered in the last 90 days before the election and they have Spanish-sounding surnames, that is probably a suspicious voter.”

In Texas, the League of United Latin American Citizens criticized pro-Trump Attorney General Ken Paxton for targeting Latino activists and government officials, even raiding their homes, as part of an investigation into noncitizen voting that they say is false.

Then there’s one of Trump’s most dastardly plans: deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US, a move that would tear families apart and destroy the US economy.

In his closing argument, Trump reminded us who he considers American and who he does not. His definition is not really determined by papers, legal status or place of birth. It is amorphous, defined by what can bring him to power. Once he gains that power, it’s possible that the voters of color he woos will fall outside his definition of who counts as an American.

Many elections offer voters competing visions of the future. But this one could determine which of the two drastically different Americas we live in.