Lipstick on a pig. The RNC in Milwaukee.
Wrapped in the American flag and steeped in white supremacy, the Republican Party will gather today in Milwaukee to hold their phony nominating convention.
I say phony because the outcome is already known.
The Insurrectionists are fully in control.
It will be a throwback to the 1939 Madison Square Garden rally organized by the Germain-American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization.
That day the fascists brought 20,000 people to the Garden.
On the evening of Feb. 20, 1939, the stage of New York's Madison Square Garden displayed a 30-foot-tall banner of America's first president.. The view the audience had was stunning:
Washington was hung between American flags — and swastikas.
The Bund was an organization with headquarters in Manhattan and had thousands of members across the United States. In the 1930s, the Bund was one of several organizations in the United States that supported Adolf Hitler and the rise of fascism in Europe.
They held local rallies and parades, opened bookstores and organized summer camps for youth.
Their vision for America was explained in their platform of white supremacy, fascist ideology wrapped in American patriotism.
If all that sounds familiar, it should. It is the present day MAGA Party except for the swastikas.
And for some of the MAGAs even the swastikas have been unwrapped.
In the wake of the failed assassination attempt on Trump a few days before the RNC, Democrats have all but given up exposing the Republican demagoguery
WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's reelection campaign quickly upended its strategy after an assassination attempt on Republican rival Donald Trump in western Pennsylvania, calling off verbal attacks on the former president to focus instead on a message of unity.
Within hours of Saturday's shooting, Biden's campaign was pulling down television ads and suspending other political communications, including those that had highlighted Trump's May felony conviction in New York state court relating to hush money paid to a porn star to avert a sex scandal before the 2016 U.S. election.
Any discussion of mounting a hard-hitting campaign with a different candidate has been put on extended hold by the Democrats.
Meanwhile, in spite of efforts by the MAGAs and the Democratic mayor of Milwaukee, there will be protests against Trump in the streets.
As many as 5,000 protesters are expected.
But the protesters will be kept far from the action at the convention hall.
Demonstrations will be kept blocks from the main convention site, relegated to an area outside of the fenced-off perimeter around the complex. It’s the result of months of discussions between Republicans and the Secret Service — and between activists and the city of Milwaukee — over how to keep a potential 5,000 protesters away from the proceedings.
Similar efforts to restrict free speech have been going on in Chicago in anticipation of the Democrat’s convention in Chicago, scheduled for a few weeks from now.
“It sets a terrible precedent. I mean, they could just rent out our whole city and then the whole thing becomes a credential zone,” said Omar Flores, co-chair of the Coalition to March on the RNC 2024, the group organizing the largest demonstration.