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 who's a crazed lunatic. This is 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. I'll 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, that call to abandon empathy, to stop seeing our shared humanity.

That is no longer just Donald Trump.

That rhetoric and that behavior has invaded Trump's entire party.

Here was Trump's closest rival for the Republican nomination,

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