When you can’t beat em, smear em — and anybody who’s voting for them.
That’s the prevailing motto of the panicked Dems, who’re projecting Trump’s Madison Sq. Backyard rally via some evil Nazi funhouse mirror.
Throughout its protection of the occasion, MSNBC grautitiously spliced in disgusting footage of the 1939 Nazi rally that befell in MSG. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez referred to as it a “mini January 6 rally” and Tim Walz stated there’s “a direct parallel” to the 1939 rally.
These had been deluded dispatches from their couches. I do know as a result of I coated the occasion from each inside and outside the World’s Most Well-known Area.
This Hitler fever dream was no shock. When the rally was introduced, New York State senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal shamelessly tweeted the gathering was a “disastrous resolution by Madison Sq. Backyard that can endanger the general public security of New Yorkers and has the potential to incite widespread violence.” He “demanded” the Backyard cancel to “hold our metropolis protected.”
Secure from whom, he didn’t say however the implication was clear: Republicans and Trump voters had been violent thugs.
I had by no means been to a political rally, and whereas I lean proper, I don’t take into account myself MAGA.
However when one thing of consequence occurs at MSG, whether or not it’s a live performance, faculty hoops, the Rangers or UFC, I need to be there – even when Hoylman-Sigal stated it might be unhealthy information.
Hey, I lived via the summer season of 2020 riots and all of the persevering with chaos right here because the October 7 assaults in Israel. I wished to see what sort of punch these fascist MAGA meanies have.
Properly folks, I’ve information: the supposed ‘Nazis’ and ‘fascists’ have gone gentle.
The gang was as ethnically various as a Bennetton advert, if a Bennetton advert featured a great deal of non secular Jews (once more, not expert at doing Nazi stuff).
All of those so-called deplorables, some from as far-off as Florida and others current Democrat defectors, waited patiently in line for greater than 4 hours. In tight quarters. Everybody was well mannered, thoughtful and affected person. Nobody complained. I’ve been on rowdier strains at Chipotle.
It was Magapalooza, a pink washed anti warfare pageant – minus the medication and booze.
The place was the violence Hoylman-Sigal promised? On Monday, there have been no stories of unrest or violent altercations.
Throughout our lengthy wait to enter the constructing, Elmwood Park, New Jersey resident Robert Purvey and his spouse Beverly, welcomed me.
“That is the heartbeat [of the movement],” he instructed me, motioning to the group round us. I had mistakenly assumed he additionally was with the 2 ladies subsequent to him. However that they had simply met. “That’s the vibe at Trump rallies. Everybody turns into instantaneous pals,” he stated.
I made that error so much. It grew to become tough to discern who got here with who. Everybody appeared to be with one another. They had been bonded by their frustration with our present administration, their want for security, safety and a decrease value of dwelling. Most stated that Trump, along with his frequent sense and tell-it-like-it-is, strategy, was the one who might ship.
I met sisters Chickie Piazza and Susan Santangelo, who grew up on Thompson Avenue in Soho, a number of doorways from the place I lived for 15 years. They had been round my mom’s age and we had folks in frequent. They instantly took me underneath their wing like I used to be their very own.
Piazza, who lives in Greenwich Village, stated she’d be okay if she didn’t make it into the sector. “It was simply fantastic to see all these pink hats in Midtown Manhattan.”
However we obtained in — albeit about two hours late.
The place was full of uncooked vitality, pleasure and excessive camp.
Till yesterday, I had assumed that I’d by no means see Hulk Hogan – previous his prime and retired – stroll onto the ground at MSG to “Actual American.” By a MAGA miracle, there he was, clad in a feather boa, flexing and riling up the group. It was ridiculous. It was additionally, superior.
If the left claims pleasure, the proper has enjoyable. A number of it.
The audio system I heard ranged from weird to sensible to blockbuster. Help for Israel was met with thunderous applause.
Vivek Ramaswamy was a pressure. Byron Donalds confirmed his star energy and JD Vance charmed the 20,000 plus along with his folksy wit. Elon had the viewers on their ft.
And Trump blew the roof off as he walked out to Lee Greenwood singing, “Proud to be an American.”
The gang was amped up prefer it was combat evening at MSG – and for them, it was. That was the unoffical rally theme: invoking Trump’s well-known name to “combat” after he was shot within the ear again in July.
However to cite the Hulkster: “I don’t see no stinkin’ Nazis right here.”
Simply passionate, peaceable, largely center class folks hoping for a greater life fo themselves – and their households.
Folks the Democrats used to welcome with open arms.
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