It was clear, as soon as Donald Trump announced his rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden, that to Make America Great Again he would have a thunderclap echo from the infamous rally of American Nazis in that arena on February 20, 1939. That night, the Garden was packed with more than 20,000. A portrait of George Washington commanded the stage. American and Nazi flags and swastikas were on display. The crowd gave “sieg heils”.

The American Nazis gathered to keep America pure from alien influences, and to bring America closer to Hitler’s Germany and his vision of the world. James Wheeler-Hill, the Nazi party’s national secretary, was as clear as day: “If George Washington were alive today, he would be friends with Adolf Hitler.”

Next, Madison Square Garden: Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Mullett Arena in Tempe, Arizona, on Thursday. Credit: AP/Matt York

Trump wants to come home to Madison Square Garden to continue his fight for America First to purge the country of alien influences and radical left extremism.

The creators on an Academy Award-winning film of that 1939 event, A Night at the Garden, have written: “Every one of the characteristics of Donald Trump’s rallies is present in the film above: the same vicious denunciation of the press, the same appeals to patriotism and white nationalism, the same urging that the........

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