Trump On Blast: "Dehumanizing" And "Incendiary" Rhetoric

 

Two related stories up front in today's Washington Post on the unhinged, threatening rhetoric being employed by the convicted felon Malignant Loser.  Here's his latest dehumanizing rhetoric about immigrants:

Former president Donald Trump expanded his portrayal of migrants as violent with a suggestion that they could be pitted in fights for entertainment.

During a speech to Christian conservatives on Saturday afternoon, and again at a rally in Philadelphia that evening, Trump claimed that he told his friend Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, that he should start a spinoff competition featuring migrants, as part of his riff on restricting immigration.

“Did anyone ever hear of Dana White?” Trump asked during his speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference in Washington. “ … I said, ‘Dana, I have an idea. Why don’t you set up a migrant league of fighters and have your regular league of fighters, and then you have the champion of your league — these are the greatest fighters in the world — fight the champion of the migrants.’ I think the migrant guy might win, that’s how tough they are. He didn’t like that idea too much.”  [snip]

The remarks are part of Trump’s broader pattern of using dehumanizing language when discussing immigrants, which during this election cycle has included broadly portraying migrants as violent criminals and saying that they are “poisoning the blood of our country.” [snip]

Most of those arrested at the southern border do not have criminal convictions, according to federal data. Experts say most evidence indicates that having undocumented immigrants in the country does not lead to more crime...

How many times does he have to show how he feels about Latinos and people from what he called "shithole countries" for it to take hold?  Él está hablando de ustedes, amigos.

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Here's how his campaign apparatus portrays his convictions and upcoming sentencing with the most incendiary, violent images in order to stimulate the lizard brains of the convicted felon's drooling base:

The fundraising pitch from Donald Trump was neither accurate nor subtle.

It read: “1 MONTH UNTIL ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE! THEY WANT TO SENTENCE ME TO DEATH.”

The message blasted out to his supporters was a reference to the former president’s sentencing scheduled for July 11, when he faces fines or possible jail time after being convicted on 34 charges of business fraud in connection with hush money paid to an adult-film star. A death sentence is not under consideration in the case. Neither is a “GUILLOTINE,” as another fundraising pitch suggested last week.

The incendiary emails are part of a concerted strategy that has allowed the campaign to erase a financial lead that President Biden’s campaign had opened up in recent months, according to people close to the former president who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak for the campaign. But experts in small-dollar fundraising say the solicitations are aggressive even by the standards of Trump’s frequently hyperbolic and inflammatory language.

“I think those are clearly an escalation over and above some incredibly heated rhetoric and some irresponsible rhetoric we’ve seen over time,” said Matthew Hindman, a professor at George Washington University who studies digital emails. “The fact that those messages continue to be sent out tell us about something. The rhetoric has been driven by user response and user donations. If this extreme rhetoric continues to generate funds, it’s going to be rewarded with an even more extreme response next time.”...

Most of the money collected off the gullible rubes will likely go to the convicted felon's various legal teams, of course.  Every dollar diverted to them is a dollar not being used to elect the convicted felon Malignant Loser and his MAGAt cult candidates, so keep draining your accounts, dimbulbs!

That aside, the dangerous rhetoric that has become the convicted felon Malignant Loser's stock in trade continues to erode the foundations of our democracy and the rule of law.  We don't seem to have a gag order big enough to cover that.

(Photo:  screenshot / New York Daily News)