Jake Johnson is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
From start to finish, Republican nominee Donald Trump 's campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night was a torrent of bigotry and fascistic rhetoric, with the former president and a bizarre lineup of preceding speakers trashing Puerto Ricans and Palestinians, condemning the press, and casting their political opponents as a satanic 'enemy from within.
'The point here is that fascism is on full display, openly: no dog whistles, no plausible deniability,' said Kathleen Belew, an associate professor of history at Northwestern University whose work has focused on the white supremacist movement in the United States. 'It's a show of power and another attempt to make this look and feel normal,' Belew added. 'And it will not just magically disappear after the election, regardless of the outcome.
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