Two recent campaign events put the stakes of this election on vivid display, and I hope voters were paying attention.
On Sunday, at former president Donald Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden, one of the warm-up speakers called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage” and singled out a Black man in the audience with a racist trope about watermelons. Another speaker railed against immigration — which is how this country was built — and declared that “America is for Americans and Americans only.” Another speaker thundered that Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump’s opponent, is “the Devil” and “the Antichrist.” And yet another implied that the vice president was a prostitute, referring to Harris’s aides as “her pimp handlers.”
