Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
Most of Donald Trump’s speech in Arizona yesterday — his first such event since being convicted of multiple felonies — was largely unremarkable, though the Republican’s focus on “the enemy from within” warrants extra attention. “We have the enemy from within, and we have the enemy from the outside,” the former president told attendees at a Turning Point Action event. “And I’m telling you, we are in more danger from the enemy from within.
It’s probably, more than anything else, ourselves and some of the horrible, U.S.A.-hating people that represent us.” Months later, in a Veterans Day message, Trump not only referred to many Americans as “vermin” — phrasing that echoed Hitler and Mussolini — he concluded, “The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave, than the threat from within.
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