On Sunday, Donald Trump hosted a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York,

prompting critics to compare the event to another one in the same place many years ago.

In 1939, more than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, packed the

garden for a so-called Pro-America rally.

A rally where speakers voiced

anti-Semitic rhetoric from a stage draped with Nazi banners.

Those speeches in New York drew chilling attention

to the ways in which American policy had inspired the fear.

American lawmakers generations ago promulgated laws forbidding intermarriage

between white and black, yellow, brown, and red inhabitants, it has then always

been very much American, wherever a race problem became acute to instinctively attempt to create legislation designed to protect the Aryan

character of this nation.

At Sunday night's rally at the Garden, Trump and his allies, untempered and unbound traded in racist tropes and

nationalistic rhetoric to an eager crowd warmed up by the insult comic Tony

Hinchcliffe. I don't know if you guys know this but there's

literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah, I

think it's called Puerto Rico. The lineup included Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, R.F.K. Jr. Rudy Giuliani and the

resolutely jingoistic Stephen Miller.

America is for Americans and Americans only.

And of course the main attraction.

The United States is now an occupied country,

but it will soon be an occupied country no longer.

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