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At two speeches over the weekend, Donald Trump ramped up the dangerous language about migrants.

He floated the idea of ultimate fighting championship matches between migrants and

Native-born Americans and suggested other countries are emptying their prisons and

mental institutions into our country, while again vowing mass removals of millions

if he's elected president. In a real rarity, the Washington Post did a piece covering

Trump's escalation of dangerous rhetoric as itself being the story. Why doesn't the media do this more often?

Today we're talking about this with Brian Boitler, who has done great work on his

sub-stack arguing that the Trump MAGA GOP way of doing politics should be covered as a rolling scandal in its own right.

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