During a rally last night in Durham, New Hampshire, defeated, former President Donald Trump said this of migrants coming to the United States:
They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country. That’s what they’ve done. They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just to three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world. They’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.
For bad measure, Trump took to "Truth Social":
Illegal immigration is poisoning the blood of our nation. They’re coming from prisons, from mental institutions — from all over the world.
Trump's use of the term "poisoning the blood" is paraphrasing Hitler who used the term "blood poisoning" in Mein Kempf. Hitler wrote, “All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning.”
Trump also used the term "blood poisoning" in an interview with the far-right National Pulse in October:
Nobody has ever seen anything like we're witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It's poisoning the blood of our country. It's so bad, and people are coming in with disease. People are coming in with every possible thing that you could have.
Trump is making his blood and soil nationalism plain for everyone to see. Yet in so doing, he is rallying people to his side.
Let us not forget the first thing Trump said after descending the escalator at Trump Tower in June 2015:
When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best....They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
Instead of that ending his presidential aspirations right then and there, the MAGA movement was born. Its cancer has spread and has metastasized among a significant portion of the U.S. population which believes Trump won an election he lost and was willing to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
Look for Trump to continue the term "poisoning the blood" and, in so doing, make it a normal part of our deteriorating political discourse.
President Biden has condemned Trump's use of the term "poisoning the blood" and his use of the term "vermin" (yet another term used by Hitler) to describe his political opponents and will do again and again.
The question is will anyone listen and vote accordingly?
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