2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNC Trump Rally Account Is The Scariest Thing You'll Read Today
A Trump Rally in Greensboro "Anger in here is palpable"
Just got told I don't "look right."
I don't like Hitler comparisons but that was positively like Nuremburg rally level crazy.
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/06/nc-trump-rally-account-scariest-thing?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=im
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,704 posts)His supporters will make sure there will be blood at the Convention if the GOP PTB tried.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I knew Trump is a disaster, a hateful misogynist, racist, homophobic, and xenophobic cretin. And I've heard about Trump rallies that resemble the ones in the Third Reich's Neurenberg.
But this!! From an article in the New Republic by the same guy who was live Tweeting this terrible nightmare:
Hed rambled until he couldnt ramble anymore and seemed spent. Hed exhausted yelling Shut up, you SILLY WOMAN! during an odd, misplaced poem that compared immigrants to snakes. At another point, a boy interrupted with We all bleed red and was dragged out by security as Trump sarcastically called, Dont hurt him! Please dont hurt that person! and the crowd replied, Hurt him! / Hurt him! As he was led to the doors, a small pack of supporters broke off from the throng and followed as if they meant to pummel him just past the exit.
Outside, the lot was filled with more vendors and beyond them cars and trucks with Confederate Flag bumper stickers, decals, license plates, and actual Confederate Flags. In the shadow of one I watched a dad spank his child heatedly, as if the man needed somewhere to focus all his anger.
I have a very ugly feeling it will only get worse. Like the author, I hate stupid Nazi comparisons, but this account is the closest I've seen to something as ugly as the Neurenberg rallies. And the aftermath.
VOX
(22,976 posts)...actually valid: blind nationalism; demonizing by race and religion; spying on one's neighbors; conspiracy theories writ large; xenophobia; anti-intellectualism; demagoguery; nativism, etc. The parallels to 1930s Germany are shockingly similar.