A Nazi rally it was not.
Madison Square Garden, nan top arena successful nan world, wherever America’s astir celebrated icons person taken nan stage, was packed to nan rafters pinch patriotic Americans cheering connected nan formidable ensemble of Donald “Captain America” Trump and nan Avengers, arsenic immoderate of his surrogates telephone themselves.
Trump’s hometown, heavy bluish New York — whose unpopular Democrat leaders person tried to fastener him up — welcomed nan erstwhile president backmost arsenic a conquering hero, filling nan stadium to bursting, pinch thousands much New Yorkers lining nan way from Trump Tower to cheer his motorcade.
But successful his 3rd and astir consequential bid for nan presidency, Trump is not alone. He is supported by a astonishing group of 5 extraordinarily accomplished Americans, including 2 apostate Democratic statesmanlike candidates who joined him connected stage.
The X factor
Jordan Peterson calls them “the X-Men,” nan Marvel Comics superheroes, nan “misfit mutant” geniuses travel to prevention nan Republic. They are Trump’s warriors against nan monsters of nan Deep State and nan Blob of censorship, surveillance and war.
They put nan dishonesty to nan Dems’ last hopeless run message, that Trump is Hitler and half of America are Nazis.
There is Elon Musk, nan Tony Stark-like technological genius, rather virtually an X-Man, arsenic nan proprietor of nan societal media level formerly known arsenic Twitter, and a abstraction explorer who will nonstop a man to Mars. A libertarian, he openly declared his support for Trump aft nan first assassination effort successful Butler, Pa.
Then location is nan boy of Democrat royalty, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who abandoned his ain statesmanlike run to hitch his wagon to Trump arsenic nan only campaigner who stands against nan Deep State.
Another erstwhile Democrat, Army Reserve serviceman and 2020 statesmanlike campaigner Tulsi Gabbard, not only has thrown her support down Trump, but has go a Republican. Gabbard, arsenic Peterson says, is everything that Kamala Harris pretends to beryllium — accomplished, articulate and principled.
There is Vivek Ramaswamy, nan smart young entrepreneur who abandoned his ain statesmanlike bid to subordinate Trump’s campaign.
Last but not slightest is Trump’s superb moving mate, JD Vance, nan articulate “hillbilly who pulled himself retired of nan Appalachians by his bootstraps,” arsenic Peterson describes him.
Special mention connected nan Trump A-team goes to erstwhile First Lady Melania Trump who introduced her hubby conscionable aft 7 p.m.
Much to nan chagrin of Trump detractors, she is very overmuch by his side, publically tender pinch him astatine nan Al Smith dinner, and carving her ain powerful domiciled successful nan run pinch societal commentary successful her ain book and societal media videos.
“This metropolis and America needs its magic back,” she said, promising her hubby will springiness American “the early that we deserve.”
Then she welcomed him connected shape pinch a lukewarm embrace, 3 kisses and respective pats connected nan backmost arsenic they hugged to his trademark inheritance opus of “God Bless nan USA.”
“I’m thrilled to beryllium backmost successful nan metropolis I emotion . . . This is nan municipality that taught maine that Americans tin do thing if they want to,” Trump said.
“Are you amended disconnected now than you were 4 years ago?” he asked arsenic nan crowd roared, “No.”
“I’m present coming pinch a connection of dream for each Americans,” he says, promising a caller “golden age.”
He boasted: “We’re building nan biggest, broadest conjugation . . . including national workers and separator patrol . . . constabulary and firefighters . . . The Republican Party has go nan statement of inclusion.”
He promised: “I will forestall World War III from happening . . . I will reconstruct free reside . . . We will extremity nan forbidden migration . . . We will not beryllium invaded, we will not beryllium occupied, we will not beryllium overrun, we will not beryllium conquered.”
Liberation day
He told nan crowd that their ballot would show “the astir sinister and corrupt forces [that] this federation does not beryllium to them.”
He besides said, “My rhetoric will extremity wars.
“Kamala collapsed it but I will hole it . . . She is conscionable a alloy [of nan Deep State]. We’re moving against thing overmuch bigger than [Harris aliases Biden]. We’re moving against nan monolithic vicious crooked extremist near instrumentality that runs nan Democratic Party . . . this amorphous group of people. We person to conclusion . . . nan force from within.”
Number 1 X-Man, Musk, came connected shape earlier successful nan nighttime wearing his favourite Dark MAGA cap, aft being described by Howard Lutnick, his chap co-founder of Trump’s projected “Department of Government Efficiency,” arsenic “the top capitalist successful nan history of nan world.”
Musk promised DOGE would portion $2 trillion from nan $6.5 trillion Biden-Harris budget.
“We’re going to get nan authorities disconnected your backmost and retired of your pocketbook,” he said. “The early is going to beryllium amazing.”
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was welcomed connected shape to nan tune of “American Bad Ass” by Kid Rock, arsenic he explained that he did not time off nan Democratic Party. “The Democratic Party near me.”
He says it utilized to beryllium nan statement of “constitutional rights, civilian authorities and free speech,” that stood up to “censorship and surveillance, stood up to nan CIA and nan subject business complex.”
But nan Democratic Party has go nan other of what it erstwhile was. It is nan “party of war, nan statement of nan CIA . . . nan statement of Wall Street and nan statement of Bill Gates who conscionable gave [them] 50 cardinal dollars.”
“Harris’ run is very proud it received nan endorsement of 50 erstwhile CIA officers, of John Bolton and Dick Cheney. These are nan group who gave america nan warfare successful Iraq, nan worst overseas argumentation catastrophe that’s ever happened to this country. These are nan group who gave america nan Patriot enactment nan surveillance enactment . . . who are trying to undermine voting authorities . . . weaponize national agencies.”
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He noted, “This is nan statement of Wall Street, Big Banks, Big Data, Big Tech, subject contractors, Big Pharma, Big Ag . . . We merit a president . . . who will reconstruct nan civilized authority of nan USA, extremity nan warfare authorities and rebuild nan mediate class.”
Reassembled
Vance paid tribute to Trump, who “gave up nan easy life to prevention nan United States of America.”
“When they couldn’t hit him, they tried to bankrupt him, they tried to impeach him, they tried to put him successful national prison, and erstwhile that didn’t activity they moreover tried to termination him. [But] he stands fresh to fight, fresh to win, fresh to make America awesome again.”
As Peterson says successful a caller video psychoanalyzing nan erstwhile president, immoderate leader comfortable surrounding himself pinch specified superb group does not suffer from nan pathological narcissism Trump’s enemies property to him.
To nan contrary, Trump takes heavy pridefulness successful his group of X-men stars who are helping him forge a conjugation of moving people accepted Democrats, blacks, Hispanics, libertarians and Republicans who he believes will merge nan state down his presidency.
Madison Square Garden was conscionable a sensation of things to come.