Posted on 05/19/2016 3:56:52 AM PDT by Jim Noble
As I walked into a soundstage Wednesday night at Grumman Studios, which was filled with thousands upon thousands of Donald Trump supporters penned into metal barricades and donning all manner of Trump paraphernalia, I immediately thought of the words Richard Strout of The New Republic used more than four decades ago to describe the scene at a George Wallace rally during the 1968 presidential campaign.
“There is menace in the blood shout of the crowd,” wrote Strout. “You feel you have known this all somewhere. Never again will you read about Berlin in the ’30s without remembering this wild confrontation here of two irrational forces. The American sickness has finally localized; Wallace is the ablest demagogue of our time.”
The analogy to Germany in the 1930s is, to be sure, inexact. But the atmosphere in Bethpage was unlike anything I’ve seen at a political rally. There was an electricity and energy in the room that felt venomous, violent, terrifying — like the political equivalent of parched kindling before a conflagration. If Trump had told the throngs there to go rampage in the streets, I half think most of them would have complied.
The crowd was almost all white, overwhelmingly male, and disproportionately young...
Dang fine home page you have there, Jim.
Haha....the Media is projecting BIG TIME.
I gotta say, the young girl on the far right does look like she’s trying to send Donald to the cornfield.
He can come here and get that at any bus shelter within 500 yards of a Section 8 apartment (may not apply between the hours of 4:00 AM and 11:00 AM, or in temperatures below 40 degrees F).
Mr. niteowl77
They aren’t Trump’s guards. They’re the local police, enforcing the law.
Searching for a ZOT?
I’m very disappointed in the Boston Globe for printing such obvious fascist propaganda.
The writer see’s NAZI’S but they are him.
BTW; who're the ones actually rampaging in the streets?
. There was an electricity and energy in the room that felt venomous, violent, terrifying — like the political equivalent of parched kindling before a conflagration
The author thinks he is saying something about Trump and his crowds but he is actually saying something about HIMSELF. He is showing his true vicious bullying nature in “fearing” the reaction by the public to the MADNESS in which he somehow finds order.
One thing Ms. Cohen will never have to endure is thousands and thousands of Hillary Clinton supporters penned into metal barricades and donning all manner of Clinton paraphernalia.
People WANT to see Trump, they are repelled by the Clinton.
While usually I would say it is old news I some how missed it the first time and this scares me. This type of fascist propaganda is meant to incite people to violence against Trump and his supporters.
Same thing they said about the TeaParty rallies.
Amusement.
Young? Good.
Cohen is projecting, externalizing his own state of mind.
References The New Republic. No bias there. . . And what a baby. But still, he was brave to leave his safe space in his mama’s basement, surrounded by fluffy stuffed animals and playing dress-up with his Barbie dolls.
But the violence at Trump Rally’s has stopped for the most part as it became evident it was not hurting Trump but was actually helping him.
It’s pretty well known the agitators were paid and this removes all credibility from their actions.
“If Trump had told the throngs there to go rampage in the streets, I half think most of them would have complied”.
...and speaking of half thoughts, He didn’t and that is a distinction conveniently ignored. Was this article supposed to be news?
That might be a Hillary rally where he can listen to her shrill voice and maybe she will tack on a faux southern accent or black dialect.
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