A brief word about Nazi rallies at Madison Square Garden

I believe the stated object of a rally is to gather support for a cause. Still, the covert point of a rally is to convince the main speaker that all those people worship you, and will do whatever you tell them to do.

The Nazi rally in 1939…well, however roused the 20,000 attendees were, the 100,000 anti-Nazi demonstrators outside the arena were roused five times more. And, as the Wikipedia entry on this event explains…

The Bund rapidly declined in the aftermath of the rally, with [Fritz Julius] Kuhn being imprisoned for embezzlement by the end of the year.

I mean, a Nazi (he was one) brought down by embezzlement? Shit. How low can you go?

Today, our own suddenly-self-invented Hitlerite — pre-indicted and convicted — is rallying his troops at the Garden. Ho hum. I heard a bit of one speaker’s impossibly, stupidly racist thing about Latinos, heavy on sexual references. (Is there another word for “bizarre”? Let me check my 1924 Roget’s and see what’s available: aberrant; wanton; unnatural; monstrous; tetratogenetic; lawless; grotesque; outlandish…that’s enough.)

What is PBS writing about it?

The event was marked by a series of racist and sexist comments from several speakers.

Trump’s childhood friend David Rem referred to the Democratic presidential candidate, who is vying to become the first woman to be elected president, as “the Antichrist” and “the devil.” Businessman Grant Cardone told the crowd that Harris ”and her pimp handlers will destroy our country.”

A man described as a comic said there was an island of garbage floating in the Atlantic. “It’s called Puerto Rico.” (How many American-Latino registered voters are there in the United States? 36.2 million.)

I was just asked how many people were attending Trump’s rally. I don’t know; I’m not there counting heads. I do know it isn’t going to win over any new acolytes.

In 1939, when the conditions in this country were not sparkling and Hitler was an intriguing new fascist pitching his threats out on the hustings, capturing the interest of a number of prominent people like Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford and Joseph Kennedy — anti-Semites all — we did not become a pro-Nazi nation. (See above, re what happened to the Bund after the rally.)

Do you think the American people are schmucks like our oligarchs? Jeff Bezos? Peter Thiel? Elon Musk and whoever that guy is who owns the L.A. Times?

Well, we’re not, so Trump’s MSG rally will be as successful and influential as was the one in 1939, and Trump’s prison term(s) will be a lot longer than Kuhn’s.

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