Donald Trump was unbothered by the litany of racist speech that preceded him on Sunday. The former president instead focused his ire on “the enemy from within,” which he described in conspiratorial terms as an “amorphous” “radical left machine” that secretly controls President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

"We're running against something far bigger than Joe or Kamala, and far more powerful than them. It is a massive, vicious, crooked radical-left machine that runs today's Democrat party," he said. "They're just vessels [for]... this amorphous group of people,” he continued, adding moments later: “They are indeed the enemy from within."

Trump made his remarks on the sixth anniversary of the Tree of Life shooting, when a right-wing extremist, motivated by hatred of immigrants and Jews, attacked and killed worshipers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. He was also speaking at Madison Square Garden, the site of an infamous 1939 rally where American supporters of Nazi Germany likewise filled Midtown Manhattan with fascist sympathizers.

Before the Republican candidate even got on stage, the full ugliness of his movement was on open display.

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