At Donald Trump’s racist, hate-filled Madison Square Garden rally this weekend, the Republican Party got a look at rock bottom, and American voters got a glimpse of the babbling hell that awaits them if Trump wins reelection next week.

The event was ugly, with racist jokes about Puerto Ricans and Black people. It was weird, with appearances by wrestler Hulk Hogan, the now-nearly-destitute Rudy Giuliani and some hack radio host who said of the Democratic Party: “The whole f---ing party, a bunch of degenerates, lowlifes, Jew-haters.”

The rally was an insult to decency, an hours-long freak show fully endorsed by the GOP thanks to an appearance by House Speaker Mike Johnson. It sent shock waves across the country, drawing condemnation even from Republican lawmakers and earning the Trump campaign headlines like:

“Trump rally speakers lob racist insults, call Puerto Rico ‘island of garbage’”

“Trump at the Garden: A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism”

"Trump MSG rally marked by racist tropes and vitriol"

Trump’s massive ego demanded a rally in New York City, even though New York is a reliabily blue state. What the former president got was a........

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