Puerto Ricans Discovered Trump’s Hangman.Will the Rest of America?

Last Sunday night Donald Trump held what has been understood as his “closing argument” rally at Madison Square Garden.

Not surprisingly for a rally that many commentators have pointed out self-consciously evokes the infamous 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden (see here and here), the featured speakers presented a closing argument that can neatly be summarized as, “We’re haters. Haters gonna hate. Vote for Trump and Vance if you can’t get enough hate.”

Among all the haters who spoke, “comedian” Tony Hinchcliffe perhaps garnered the most attention and roiled the waters of controversy most with his expressions of hate (I won’t say jokes) about Latinos. In one such hate utterance, he referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”

This is so funny I forgot to laugh. Hinchcliffe, of course, accuses those who don’t find comedic value in his hate as having “no sense of humor.”

Some celebrity Puerto Rican artists also lacked a sense of humor and took to social media almost instantaneously to voice their support for the Harris-Walz ticket.

Global pop star Bad Bunny, for example, took to Instagram, where he has 46 million followers, in support of Harris, posting a clip about Trump’s abandonment of Puerto Rico in the wake of…