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Podcast: Democracy Now!
Episode: Column — Hatred and Racism: Trump’s Ominous Closing Argument
Description: By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Donald Trump made his “closing argument” at a Madison Square Garden rally in New York, the same city where he was recently convicted of 34 felonies. The spectacle was an orchestrated, six-hour orgy of hate. Speaker after speaker worked the crowd by attacking immigrants, Jews, Black people, women and more, directing special invective against the woman of color challenging Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris. Celebrity white supremacist Tucker Carlson, for example, warned Harris could be “the first Samoan, Malaysian, low-IQ, former California prosecutor ever to be elected president.”
The evening’s opening act, a so-called comedian named Tony...