Terror in Ohio: How Trump-MAGA Rage Is Ripping Apart a Small Town

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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At this week’s debate, Donald Trump spread the deranged lie that immigrants are eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio. Tensions are escalating and terror is spreading: Haitian immigrants living there say they fear for their safety, and on Thursday, Springfield’s City Hall was evacuated due to a bomb threat. What if these searing tensions are exactly what Trump and his MAGA allies want? Not that they want violence, but rather that they see supercharged social rifts as desirable? We talked to Andrew Egger, a writer for The Bulwark who has a good new piece on Springfield, about how this saga opens a window on the darkness and malevolence of the MAGA movement. Listen to this episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:02.0	At the debate this week, Donald Trump gave voice to the deranged lie that immigrants are eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio, and since then, things have gotten steadily worse in that small Ohio town. Tensions have escalated,
2:07.5	Haitian immigrants living there say they fear for their safety, and on Thursday, Springfield's City Hall was evacuated due to a bomb threat. What if this is exactly what Trump and his mega
2:13.6	allies want? Not that they necessarily want anybody to get hurt, but rather that supercharged
2:19.6	social tensions are to them a desirable goal, both because they think this benefits Trump
2:24.7	politically, and because it excites the MAGA masses. Andrew Eger, a writer for the bulwark,
2:30.4	has a good new piece in which he treats the Springfield story as a window into
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