Susan Glasser: “By now you have most certainly heard about the most shocking remarks from the Garden rally…
“What was disgusting about being there in person was watching the Trump fans around me and realizing there was nothing shocking about them. Hatred is what they were there to cheer on. The harsher the nickname, the harsher the slur, the louder the roar. The people around me weren’t threatening or particularly angry, but they all seemed to indulge the worst aspects of Trumpism: the cult of personality, the calculated hurling of vicious insults, the demonization of entire groups…
“But after that I felt strangely optimistic for at least a few hours. Perhaps it is too difficult to believe that this dark, cramped, hateful vision of America is actually shared by the majority of Americans. I had a similar feeling at the end of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this summer. His Trumpized Republican Party feels like a religion that demands from its followers an excessive suspension of disbelief.”
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