Jared Sexton's full piece on Trump's Greensboro rally last night.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

He live-tweeted highlights earlier as they took place.

https://newrepublic.com/article/134329/american-horror-story

By the end of Trump’s speech, everything had been touched: His successes in the polls. ISIS and illegal immigrants in the same breath. Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren. The “dishonest” media and Trump’s revocation of the Washington Post’s press credentials, during which my section chanted “Kill them all / kill them all.”

He’d rambled until he couldn’t ramble anymore and seemed spent. He’d exhausted yelling “Shut up, you SILLY WOMAN!” during an odd, misplaced poem that compared immigrants to snakes. At another point, a boy interrupted with “We all bleed red” and was dragged out by security as Trump sarcastically called, “Don’t hurt him! Please don’t hurt that person!” and the crowd replied, “Hurt him! / Hurt him!” As he was led to the doors, a small pack of supporters broke off from the throng and followed as if they meant to pummel him just past the exit.

Outside, the lot was filled with more vendors and beyond them cars and trucks with Confederate Flag bumper stickers, decals, license plates, and actual Confederate Flags. In the shadow of one I watched a dad spank his child heatedly, as if the man needed somewhere to focus all his anger.

I actually thought the "In the Flesh" style Trump rallies that we saw at the height of the Republican primaries had waned off and he'd be moving towards a more polished production, but no, they are still quite alive and well.

[underpants]

1. They demand his greatest hits - "impromptu" has become a stump speech.

Drunken parking lot of racists.

[PJMcK]

2. This was an insightful report

Thanks for posting the link, Tommy. I had seen the tweets earlier but this account really filled in the picture.

[PunkinPi]

3. This part...

"That’s when I realized what had been there all along. This campaign, whose success has long been attributed to the forgotten working and middle classes, the so-called Silent Majority, has been, and always will be, an unholy alliance between the Hateful and the Privileged, the former always on a never-ending search for new venues for their poison and the latter enjoying, for the first time since Reagan’s ’80s, an opportunity to get out and step on some necks in public."

Fuck you, Donald and the rest of the GOP enablers!

[gopiscrap]

4. Well said