Donald Trump's freakshow continues unabated | Sidney Blumenthal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

79% : "The love in that room," said Trump after his rally at Madison Square Garden.
65% : Then, after confidently predicting Trump would win "the normal gay guy", Vance pronounced the Emily In Paris Netflix series a "masterpiece".
65% : Trump was the demagogue he was waiting for.
54% : He claimed to be a childhood friend of Trump's from his Queens neighborhood, but, in fact, had only recently met him.
53% : In private conversation, former staffers and others with intimate knowledge of Trump, all reliable people, talk about the real man as far viler than those who haven't seen him behind closed doors could possibly know.
52% : It would have been better for Trump if his speakers had been equipped like the mute Harpo with a honking horn.
52% : The acts expired, except for the Alien Enemies Act, which is invoked now by Trump.
47% : Trump has promised him that he will be put in charge of the federal workforce "to start from scratch".
42% : When Trump was invited to give a formal speech at Penn, Don Jr refused to attend.
41% : If anything might befall Trump, Musk and his fellow techno authoritarians have Vance positioned a heartbeat away.
40% : There is no responsible person left around Trump.
40% : Conspicuously missing from the cabal that staged the Garden fiasco was the most diligent student of Hitler of all the minions swirling around Trump.
38% : And they all have stories, some exhibiting his narcissism, others his malice: how, for example, the time two senators from one state were summoned to the Oval Office to listen to Trump say he would travel there to have a mountain named after him.
38% : If Trump were to be elected, Miller would play a large role in implementing what Trump boasted would be "the largest deportation program in American history".
35% : His college roommates at the University of Pennsylvania recalled Trump coming to visit and smashing Don Jr in the face in front of his friends, knocking him to the ground.
33% : When Bannon saw Trump descend down the Trump Tower escalator to launch his campaign in 2015, he thought, "That's Hitler!"
32% : He picked up once again on the big lie of "election integrity", that the 2024 election might be stolen from Trump just like in 2020.
25% : "And when I say the enemy from within, the other side goes crazy, becomes a sound hole," Trump barked.
24% : He still faces New York state charges of financial fraud in a scheme to fleece donors to build Trump's wall along the Mexican border.
23% : His regulatory troubles will all go away with Trump.
23% : Bannon, who became Trump's campaign manager in 2016 and White House senior adviser, saw himself staging Trump as Riefenstahl filmed Hitler.
22% : But "Kill Tony" really did make himself roadkill and in the process "stabbed" Trump in what was not a movie or a comedy club.
21% : "Trump is hellbent to break through any "sane-washing" of the media smoothing over his viciousness and vulgarity.
20% : "Undoubtedly, Trump had no clue he was referring to the political period that Thomas Jefferson described as "the reign of witches".
19% : By his own words, Trump has proved her point that he is a "danger" to the constitution and defied his apologists who insist he can be contained or that he doesn't really mean what he says.
19% : Time and again, day after day, event after event, Trump insists on posing as the salient question of the election, certainly about the candidate himself: are you crazier today than you were four years ago?Many of Trump's former White House staffers, cabinet secretaries and commanding generals are frantically attempting to warn against his madness, that he is "a fascist to the core", as former chairman of the joint chiefs Gen Mark Milley has unequivocally stated.
17% : Trump came on stage to shout threats to the rafters.
16% : Hours after Trump declared his wish to kill Cheney, the Wall Street Journal editorial board, his reliable excuse maker for the executive collaborator class, published an editorial stating, "We don't buy the fascism fears, and we doubt Democrats really do either.
8% : Trump insists on posing as the salient question of the election: are you crazier today than you were four years ago?Donald Trump's threat to execute Liz Cheney, "with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her", is the apogee so far of his Hitlerian rhetoric.
7% : The aspiring oligarch has donated tens of millions to a political action committee to support Trump, produced misleading TV spots to smear Harris, and used X to promote disinformation for Trump.
5% : Rogan devoted three hours on his podcast on 26 October to a limp interview with Trump in which he failed to challenge Trump's dozens of flagrant lies.
3% : Tucker would appear as the interviewer of Trump on 31 October at an Arizona rally, where he brought up "Dick Cheney's repulsive little daughter", which triggered Trump to call her "deranged" and then call for her execution.

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