Dollar store Nietzsche did mean a national bloodbath beyond 100% tariffs on foreign auto imports. Chaos counts, as conman asks “whaddya have to lose?”
“Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole... country.”
In Ohio over the weekend, Donald Trump delivered one of his most unhinged and dangerous rally speeches yet: He used appallingly dehumanizing language about migrants, saluted the January 6 rioters as patriots and heroes, and predicted a “bloodbath” if he loses the election. We talked to New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser, the author of an excellent new piece about Trump’s use of violent and authoritarian language at rallies like this one, about why the media urgently needs to do better at conveying the full threat to democracy that Trump poses.
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"You want to talk about the language of tyrants and dictators? Rule number one is to call your opponents scum, nonhuman, subhuman. This is what we're openly hearing from Trump."
Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s gonna be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That will be the least of it.
Following the upheaval, Gov. Reagan cracked, “If it takes a bloodbath, let’s get it over with, no more appeasement.”
@mehdirhasan His supporters think Trump’s ‘bloodbath’ comment was taken ‘out of context’ when the context was an entire speech in which he described migrants as animals & saluted January 6th insurrectionists. Totally normal nonviolent speech from a man who isn’t on trial for multiple crimes.