The racist, sexist, and vulgar remarks at Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden rally from the former

president himself and his slate of speakers has drawn significant criticism the day after.

For more on the rhetoric and its impact,

we're joined by Ruth Ben Giat,

a professor of history at New York University.

Ruth, welcome back to the news hour.

Thank you.

So we are just days from election day. This was probably one of the ugliest

collection of remarks from selected speakers that we've seen at a Trump rally. You study

this kind of rhetoric. So what stood out to you about this type of language,

this close to election day?

So you know, this sort of place in Madison Square Garden and it was one of many occasions that the

Trump campaign has chosen to allow comparisons to be made to the Nazis.

So that was Madison Square Garden,

which was the site of a rally by American Nazis in 1939,

talking about polluting the blood, speaking of Americans as an enemy within.

This is all straight from fascism.

In fact, fascism, you know, the core of fascism in Italy and Germany were combatants who followed

their leader to bring the war home and turned their force against their own people.

And when Donald Trump was talking about America

as an occupied country and he was going to liberate it.

And also, in the past talking about using the military on Americans this comes out of

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