"Reaching deeper into his bag of bigotry, President Donald Trump hauled out some old tropes to describe Baltimore as a "disgusting rat and rodent infested mess" and "very dangerous & filthy."The column is titled, "Just When You Think Trump Can't Sink Any Lower, He Does" but it could be titled "Just When You Think A Columnist Can't Overstretch Farther To REEEEEEEEEE!, He Does."
Rodent. Rat. Infested. Filthy. Even casual students of history will recognize this vocabulary echoes the hateful terms used by notorious anti-Semites. Nazi propagandists used images of rats to depict Jews, and Nazi manuals -- such as "The Jew as World Parasite" -- described them as being "filthy." A Nazi film called "The Eternal Jew" drove the notion of infestation home, emphasizing Jewish-borne contagions."
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