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Kamala Harris was in Philadelphia yesterday while Donald Trump was in New York holding a rally at Madison Square Garden.   They were a hundred miles apart and ten thousand light years apart as well.  While Harris was calling for a coalition of patriots that would strive to make a better country for everyone,  Trump's rally went full-tilt boogie on hatred. 

Trump's Madison Square Garden rally echoed a different time, a different ethos, and a different Madison Square Garden.  And no, I'm not talking about the election campaign rally President Herbert Hoover held in 1932.  I',m talking about the German-American Bund/America First rally that took place at the old Garden in February 1939, in which white nationalists cheered for Hitler and denounced the Jews.  This rally was full of people who cheered for Trump and denounced everyone against Trump.

As expected, Kamala Harris bore the brunt of that attacks, with many speakers calling her a prostitute, or the Antichrist.  But the most egregious comments came from a so-called comedian named Tony Hinchcliffe (below), who ridiculed Hispanics for breeding liberally and called Puerto Rico piece of floating garbage in the sea.  

Interesting. There's another former President who ran to get his old job back as the head of a party that trashed another island populated by destitute Catholics and ruled by a bunch of greedy Anglos . . . 

. . . and Millard Fillmore's Know-Nothing Party platform bashing Irish immigrants only got him Maryland's eight electoral votes!