Monday marks 10 years to the day since then-reality TV character Donald Trump descended a golden-colored escalator at Trump Tower in New York Metropolis and formally introduced he would run within the 2016 presidential election.
The event was marked on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” present when The New York Instances’ Peter Baker and The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser examined how Trump has utterly reworked American politics — however as an individual has really remained precisely the identical.
Trump’s divisive rhetoric — together with about Mexicans — throughout his speech saying his candidacy “is reflective of the identical themes, the identical arguments, the identical language that he makes use of immediately,” stated Baker.
It was “surprising” on the time and felt like “an enormous scandal,” he famous, with “a lot of dialogue and commentary about how out of the norm it was, how lots of people thought it was very racist, very demagogic.”
However immediately Trump used that sort of language “on a regular basis” and “individuals don’t actually bat a watch anymore as a result of it’s turn out to be a part of our nationwide political dialog, rightly or wrongly,” Baker added.
Glasser agreed, noting how “inured we’ve turn out to be to the informal mendacity as he breathes.”
The “divisiveness, the hatefulness, the demagoguery” have been all evident throughout Trump’s very first speech, she stated, and “these have now simply turn out to be accepted details of our politics, actively cheered on by an enormous swath of America.”
Watch the total evaluation right here: