The American Fascist Party

For the past decade, opinion writers and columnists have been hesitant to state the obvious or to use terminology that accurately describes the extremism and racism of Donald Trump and his MAGA party. All pretense of civility or decorum has been excused by his hateful, disgusting rhetoric at recent rallies, culminating with his final appalling tent revival for his Klan of white nationalists this past weekend.

Failed and twice-impeached former president, adjudicated rapist with thirty-four felony convictions, and instigator of the violent insurrection to overthrow a free and fair election he lost, Donald Trump held a five-hour gala at Madison Square Garden that was a blatant imitation of and salute to the pro-Hitler rally held in the same venue in 1939. That gathering drew more than twenty thousand American Nazi supporters on the eve of the Second World War and was organized by antisemite Fritz Kuhn of the pro-Nazi German American Bund, who demanded a “white, gentile-ruled United States.”

Trump’s pagan ritual was a final pathetic testament to his domination over what was once respected as The Grand Old Party. He has transformed it into the MAGA Nazi Party by controlling its funding, leadership, and tyrannical philosophical foundations. At the current event, New York radio host Sid Rosenberg joked that it was “out of character for me to speak at a Nazi rally. I was just in…