It really seems like there’s been a dramatic escalation in rhetoric — from an already completely unacceptable starting place — in the last week or two, and it’s been treated with a slight eyebrow raise (if that) by the press.

makes you think that he's looking for a spark to be struck so he can call down the spectre of election irregularities to get this to the courts that will rule in his favor on the merits that they've already been bought.

Yeah it makes sense. They've been telegraphing it with euphemism or just talking about it among the ranks of ordinary MAGA folks or at events that people could rationalize as being "fringe". So, now that it's maybe a coin flip it makes sense for a fascist movement to rapidly go all-in.

Did not expect Axel Springer media would be among the first to publish such a powerful analysis of Trump's sickening rhetoric but it is most welcome: www.politico.com/news/2024/10...

We watched 20 Trump rallies. His racist, anti-immigrant messaging is getting darker.

A POLITICO analysis of more than 20 of his rallies and campaign events shows Trump has demonized minority groups in all of them.

It doesn’t help that the democrats are matching quite a bit of rhetoric on immigration and enthusiastically supporting a genocide 🙃

I think journos are noticing it but editors and owners are clearly under orders

Not even that

Maybe it's just me, but it looks like the "More speech in response to bad speech" strategy that First Amendment proponents say is the solution has utterly failed.