It is easy to become desensitized to the litany of outrageous things that Donald Trump has said

over the years.

But there is a reason that historians are concerned about Mr. Trump's latest stump speech.

We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascist, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country,

the threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, engraved than the threat from within.

Calling your political opponents vermin and the threat from within. We've heard that before. In Mein Kampf,

Adolf Hitler referred to Jews as vermin worthy of eradication and Benito

Mussolini would refer to his opponents as parasites and reptiles.

So Donald Trump is following in some appalling and notorious footsteps of the most violent dangerous men of the 20th century or at

least some of them. And Trump didn't end there. Here he was in the very same

stump speech talking about the home invasion and the brutal attack on

speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband an attack that was carried out by a right-wing

extremist.

Nancy Pelosi was a crazed lunatic.

She's a lunatic.

She is a lunatic. She is a crazed lunatic.

What the hell was going on with her husband?

Let's not ask. let's not ask let's not ask I withdraw

that statement by the way she's got a wall around her house obviously in that

case it didn't work very well.

Nancy Pelosi is a crazed lunatic.

That kind of glorification of violence,

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