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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 suggest that other countries are emptying their prisons and mental institutions into our

country, while again bowing 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 substack,

arguing that the Trump-Maga-GOP way of doing politics should be covered as a rolling scandal

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