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...
George Wallace, reborn as Don Trump ?
Now, THAT’S FUNNY !
An East Coast Jew. Would I be wrong in guessing that he’s a liberal? And that a Trump rally is not likely to get an unbiased review from the likes of him?
Jim Noble didn’t write the article. He just posted it.
It is also a safe assumption, many of them fear being (finally being) held accountable to We the People. Even just a little accountability has these elitist scum oozing fear, full of anxiety, and quite paranoid.
Run for your lives liberals! Run run!
Mikey Cohen, time to get an assault weapon before the election and learn to use it or befriend your local Imam who will protect you for a Dhimini tax paid the Mosque!
That sounds like a description of the supporters of the senator from the whitest state in America - Bernie.
Good lord.
You can almost picture this guy huddled over his keyboard, pained expression on his face, teddy bear on his lap.
> “... scene at a George Wallace rally during the 1968 presidential campaign.”
Oh yeah, so now GOP Donald Trump is the new democrat George Wallace.
Bullcrap!
It’s the same article that was written after the 2009 March to defeat DeathCare.
It’s easy to agree with the sentiment nikos, I for one prefer to “hear the lamentations of their women.” It’s one of the few good things left in this life!
“Young? Good.”
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Think the author slipped up there. He was probably trying to convey a sense that the supporters are naive, and accidentally broke from the “angry old white males” label typically used.
Oops!
Did Mark Levin write this?
Pray America wakes
She’s got that little Anthony Fremont look for sure. Is she pointing at Trump?
;^)
Still dealing with Post-Cruz Butt-Hurt, eh?
Too white? Bet he’d really be freaked out by a Bernie rally.
I just hate when a rally oozes...don’t you?
The one I went to the women outnumbered the men and were more enthusiastic. The media is lying again.
The new again, coordinated Media attack of this news cycle. Screw the Snowflakes and their mouthpieces.
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