Donald Trump is a very successful hate merchant. What Trump is selling his MAGA political cultists — the racism, bigotry, nativism, xenophobia, misogyny, violence, fascism and other antihuman values — is highly addictive. Such poison damages a person’s mind and behavior. With fewer than three weeks until Election Day, Trump is further “refining” his product, making it even more toxic and addictive. Trump does not care if his product hurts his MAGA users, because the more dangerous it is the more they want it. Ultimately, there will be no crescendo or endpoint for the hatred that Trump is selling; he will only get worse in the coming weeks.
In a recent series of speeches, interviews and other communications, Trump is continuing to escalate his authoritarian and Hitlerian threats and menace. Last week, at a rally in Aurora, Colorado, and then during an appearance on Fox Business News, Trump said that he would invoke the Alien Enemies Act to remove Black and brown “illegal aliens” and other “criminals” from the country and also to crush the “leftists” and other “enemies within” the United States. The Alien Enemies Act was used during World War II to imprison Japanese Americans in concentration camps. Trump and the MAGA movement’s “Leftists” and the other “enemies” will expand to include any person or group that the Great Leader and his regime decide is some type of enemy Other.
