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This Is Trump’s Message
At his Madison Square Garden rally, Trump’s argument was hate and fear.
By David A. Graham
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We might as well start with the lowlight of last night’s Trump campaign rally at Madison Square Garden. That would be Tony Hinchcliffe, a podcaster who’s part of Joe Rogan’s circle, and who was the evening’s first speaker.

“These Latinos, they love making babies too. Just know that. They do. They do. There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside,” he joked. “Just like they did to our country.” A minute later: “I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah, I think it’s called Puerto Rico.” It took a few more minutes before he got to the joke about Black people loving watermelons. Novel, edgy stuff—for a minstrel show in 1874.

Other speakers were only somewhat better. A childhood pal of Donald Trump’s called Vice President Kamala Harris “the anti-Christ” and “the devil.” The radio host Sid Rosenberg called her husband, Doug Emhoff, “a crappy Jew.” Tucker Carlson had a riff about Harris vying to be “the first Samoan-Malaysian, low-IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected president.” Stephen Miller went full blood-and-soil, declaring, “America is for Americans and Americans only.” (In 1939, a N**i rally at the old Madison Square Garden promised “to restore America to the true Americans.”) Melania Trump delivered a rare public speech that served mostly as a reminder of why her speeches are rare.

Read: How Joe Rogan remade Austin

Only after this did Trump take the stage and call Harris a “very low-IQ individual.” He vowed, “On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history.” He proposed a tax break for family caregivers, but the idea was quickly lost in the sea of offensive remarks.

Republicans who are not MAGA diehards reacted with dismay and horror—presumably at the political ramifications, because they can’t possibly be surprised by the content at this point. Politico Playbook, a useful manual of conventional wisdom, this morning cites Republicans fretting over alienating Puerto Ricans and Latinos generally. (Yesterday, Harris visited a Puerto Rican restaurant in Philadelphia and received the endorsement of the Puerto Rican pop superstar Bad Bunny.)

“Stay on message,” pleaded Representative Anthony D’Esposito, a New York Republican in a tight reelection race. That’s ridiculous. This—all of this—is the message of Trump’s campaign. Other Republicans may cringe at the coarseness of these comments, or worry that they will cost votes, but they made their choice long ago, and have stuck with them despite years of bigotry and other ugliness.

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Trump is running on nativism, crude stereotypes, and lies about immigrants. He has demeaned Harris in offensive and personal terms. He’s attacked American Jews for not supporting him. His disdain for Puerto Rico is long-standing, and his callousness after Hurricane Maria in 2017 was one of the most appalling moments of an appalling presidency. He feuded with the island’s elected officials, his administration tried to block aid, and he tried to swap the American territory for Greenland. (The Trump campaign said that Hinchcliffe’s routine “does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign,” which is also absurd. He was invited by Trump to appear at a rally for Trump’s campaign, and made the joke standing at a lectern emblazoned with Trump’s name.)

The Trump campaign itself may be perfectly happy with how it all went down. Madison Square Garden, the most famous venue in Manhattan, a place that still enthralls him, was packed to the rafters for him. Counterprotests were muted, even as speakers at the rally boasted about entering the beating heart of liberalism. (As The New York Times’ Nate Cohn writes, New York City has moved somewhat toward him, though any hopes of his winning the city or the state remain far-fetched.)

David A. Graham: Donald Trump’s dog whistles are unmistakable

The whole point of the rally was provocation. Trump has long demonstrated a view that it’s better when people are talking about him—even if they’re outraged—than talking about anyone else. The record is murky: Trump won in 2016 but lost the popular vote, lost in 2020, and led his party to poor performances in 2018 and 2022. But he appears to believe that this year could be different. Trump calculates that if people are thinking about immigration and race, they will move toward him, even if they disapprove of the policy solutions he’s offering (or just don’t believe he’ll implement them).

Some Democrats agree, and fret that the Harris campaign’s recent turn toward attacking Trump is a missed opportunity for the Democrat to make a positive case for herself or refocus on economic issues. The pro-Harris super PAC Future Forward warns in an email that “attacking Trump’s fascism is not that persuasive,” while Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, a Harris surrogate, warned that the rally was “bait.”

As a matter of electoral calculation, focusing on the offensive remarks last night may be unhelpful for Harris. But as an encapsulation of what Trump stands for as a candidate, and what he would bring to office, the rally was an effective medium for his closing message.

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David A. Graham is a staff writer at The Atlantic.

African Dust Carries Microbes Across the Ocean :
Are The y Affecting Human and Ecosystem Health?
Atmospheric transport of dust from
northwest Africa to the western Atlantic
Ocean region may be responsible for
a number of environmental hazards,
including the demise of Caribbean
corals; red tides; amphibian diseases;
increased occurrence of asthma in
humans; and oxygen depletion (eutro-
phication) in estuaries. Studies of
satellite images suggest that hundreds
of millions of tons of dust are trans-
ported annually at relatively low alti-
tudes across the Atlantic Ocean to the
Caribbean Sea and southeastern United
States. The dust emanates from the
expanding Sahara/Sahel desert region
in Africa and carries a wide variety of
bacteria and fungi .
The U.S. Geological Survey, in
collaboration with the NA SA /Goddard
Spaceflight Center, is conducting a study
Figure 1. The satellite image, acquired by NASNGoddard Spaceflight Center's SeaWiFS Project and ORB IMAGE
on February 26, 2000, shows one of the largest Saharan dust storms ever observed by SeaWiFS as it moves out
over the eastern Atlantic Ocean . Spain and Portugal are at the upper right Morocco is at the lower right.
Figure 2. This half of an air filter represents 40 liters of air (roughly the amount it would take to fill a 10 gallon
aquarium) sampled during a dust storm in Mali, Africa . The fil t er is placed on nutrient media for 48 hours so
the viable microbes can grow . The shiny, colorful circles (ind i cated by the black arrows) are bacterial colo-
nies . The fuzzy patches (indicated by the red arrows) are fun gi. These colonies range in size from about 1 to
5 millimeters .
U.S. De partmen t of the Interi or
U.S. Ge ol og ic al Survey
to identify microbes -bacteria , fungi ,
viruses-transported across the Atlantic
in African soil dust. Each year, mil -
lions of tons of desert dust blow off the
west Aftican coast and ride the trade
winds across the ocean, affecting the
entire Caribbean basin, as well as the
southeastern United States. Of the dust
reaching the U.S., Rorida receives about
50 percent, while tl1e rest may range
as far nortl1 as Maine or as far west
as Colorado. The dust stonns can be
tracked by satellite and take about one
week to cross the Atlantic.
How many microbes can a dust event
carry? There are not enough data at this
point to answer that question. However, a
conservative estimate of 10,000 microbes
per gram of soil, suggests that in 1 mil-
lion tons of dust (airborne soil) there
would be 10 quadrillion (1016
) microbes!
Conventional wisdom says ultraviolet
radiation from the sun would kill most
microbes during the 5- to 7-day trip
US GS Open -File Repor t 03-028
Jan uary 20 03
Figure 3. The eight brightly colored bacteria streaked
on this petri dish of agar were isolated from a dust
event in Africa. While many bacteria are colorless
or off-w hite in appearance, the intense colors and
opaque appearance of these streaks are examples
of how deeply pigmented many of the dust bacteria
are . Having lots of pigment is thought to help shield
the microbes from harmful solar radiation, sort of like
wearing sunscreen .
across the Atlantic. Our studies thus far
indicate that of the microbes that become
airbome, hundreds are surviving the aeri -
al joume y in each gram of dust, apparent-
ly sheltered within the particle s, shrouded
by protective pigments, or shielded by
overlying dust layers . Air samples taken
in the Virgin Islands show an increase of
3 to 10 times as many microbes during
dust events than during clear conditions.
Air samples taken in the countTy of Mali,
west Africa, can contain as many as 15
viable bacteria per liter of air (approxi-
mately one breath).
What types of microbes are in the
dust? Bacteria, fungi, and viruses - some
of tl1em patl10 genic (capable of causin g
diseases) and some of them common to
many environments. Roughly 30 percent
of tl1e bacteria isolated from airbome soil
dust are known patl10gens, able to affect
plants, animals, or humans.
What arc the po ss ible impacts of
these microbial travelers on downwind
ecosystems? USGS scientists have
monitored coral reef vi tality for nearly
40 years and have observed that the
Caribbean and Borida coral reefs have
been in a state of decline since tl1e late
1970s. Moreover, a number of other
mmine species, including the grazing
sea urchin , Diadema , and sea fm1s , have
experienced a widespread and sudden
demi se, roughly coincident with the
deaths of the stony coral populations
and increased pulses of African dus t.
Recent studies at the University of South
Carolina Aiken have identified several
species of soil fungi , Aspergillus, in
Africm1 dust samples collected from the
Caribbean atmosphere. One of these ,
Aspergillus sydowii, has been shown to
be tl1e causative agent of a disease in sea
fm1 s (now known as aspergillosis). Many
coral diseases are not well characterized
and could possibly be caused by microbes
that may have rained down from passing
dust clouds.
It is also po ss ible that microbes in
the A fJi can du st could be linked to some
of tl1c well -known outbreaks of infectious
di seases in endangered marine spec ie s,
such as manatees, dolphins , a nd tmtlcs.
Loggerhead sea turtles in th e Canary
fslands (off the west coast of Africa) have
been dying from a bacterial infection
caused by Slaphylococcus xylosus, which
has been found in a dust sa1.11 ple taken in
Mali.
The soil dust contains a number of
plant and animal pathogens tJwt could
affect agticulture and livestock in down-
wind areas. Fungal di seases, affecting
commercial crops like sugarcane and
bananas, have appeared in the Cm ibbc an
witl1in a few days after aJ.l outbreak in
Africa, suggesting the spores could have
traveled in a dust storm . Our research
has identified bacterial pathogens of ri ce
and beans in the Caribbean air smnplcs,
as well as those that cause disease in
fruit and a variety of trees, from Afri cm1
air samples. It has been speculated
that African dust may catTy tl1e virus
responsible for Foot and Mouth Disease
(which is endemic to sub -S al1 aran A fri ca)
because tentative links have been made
between dust storms that pas se d over
Great Brit.:'lin m1d subsequent outbreaks
of the disease at multiple points. We wiU
be testing future air smnples for evidence
of tlli s and other viruses. The dust h as
Figur e 4. This image , acquired by NASA's Earth Probe TOMS (Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer) satellite, shows pulse s of Afri can dust moving across the Atlantic
Ocean . Our study sites, the Virgin Islands and Mali, have been outlined for clarity.
been found to contain bactetia that cause infec-
tions in birds, pigs, and cattle.
The African dust events also have a direct
effect on human health. During a du st event,
airborne particulate concentrations in Mali
exceed international health standards tenfold.
African dust clouds arriving in the Caribbean
arc still thick enough to obscure visibility and
coat windshields. Several investigators are
currently studying a possible link between
high rates of asthma in tlte Caribbean and
African dust events. For example, tltere has
been a 17 -fold increase in the incidence of
asthma on the island of Barbados since 1973.
Whether tlli s is due to tiny mineral particles
initating the ltmgs, bacterial and fungal spores,
pollen, or some combination of these and other
factors remains to be determined. In addi -
tion to allergic or astl1matic responses, there is
the separate issue of microbes that are able to
cause inf cctions. Although we have detected
bacteria and fungi in ilie dust that arc capable
of causing infection in people with weakened
immune systems, tltere have been no cases of
infectious illness in tlte Caribbean or U. S. that
have been directly linked to intercontinental
dust events.
In addition to hosting microbes, the
A frican dust is can·y ing otl1cr tmplcasant pa s-
se ng ers. Dust from tl1e extraordinary dust
event of February 26 , 2000 (shown on tlte
fir st page), was collected by researchers at tlte
Figure 5. The hallmark brick red color of the African dust can be seen on the street as well as in the air in this
photo taken in the city of Bamako , Mali . Dust concentrations in Mali (west Africa) range from 26 · 13,735
~~g/m 3 , sometimes greatly exceeding international health standards . Easily inhaled , the small particles become
trapped in human lungs and are difficult to expel.
Figure 6. The dark purple coloring surrounding dead
tissue on this sea fan is indicative of the disease
aspergillosis. The fungus (Aspergillus sydowir), now
known to cause this disease in the tropical western
Atlantic, was identified by Garriet Smith 's laboratory
at the University of South Carolina Aiken . The fun ·
gus was isolated in its active pathogenic form from
air samples taken during dust events in the Virgin
Islands and in Mali.
University of the Azores. The smallest
particles (one micrometer) were found to
contain 2 parts per million of the element
mercury, which is many times greater
than tlte amounts normally fotmd in air.
The mercury may have originated from
open-pit mercury mines in Algeria and
from the rock fonnations from which the
mercury is mined.

The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense - Saad, Gad
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The West's commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously threatened than it is today by the stifling forces of political correctness.
Dr. Gad Saad, the host of the enormously popular YouTube show THE SAAD TRUTH, exposes the bad ideas--what he calls "idea pathogens"--that are killing common sense and rational debate. Incubated in our universities and spread through the tyranny of political correctness, these ideas are endangering our most basic freedoms--including freedom of thought and speech.
The danger is grave, but as Dr. Saad shows, politically correct dogma is riddled with logical fallacies. We have powerful weapons to fight back with--if we have the courage to use them.
A provocative guide to defending reason and intellectual freedom and a battle cry for the preservation of our fundamental rights, The Parasitic Mind will be the most controversial and talked-about book of the year.
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Gad Saad Survived War in Lebanon. He’s Warning About One in the West. Honestly with Bari Weiss · Episode

Gad Saad Survived War in Lebanon. He’s Warning About One in the West
The professor reveals how universities turned into hotbeds of ‘parasitic ideas’—and why we must fight against becoming ‘fully zombified.’
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Gad Saad Survived War in Lebanon. He’s Warning About One in the West
A woman cries in shock after a car bomb killed 13 in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War on August 8, 1986. (Khalil Dehaini via Getty Images)
In the 1940s, there were around 20,000 Jews still living in Lebanon. Just 20 years later, in the span of one generation, that number dropped to around 3,000. Gad Saad is among those statistics—born in Lebanon in 1964 into one of the last Jewish families to remain in the country.

But the nation that was once called the Paris of the Middle East began to turn when he was a child. He remembers being at school one day when a fellow student told the class he wanted to be a Jew killer when he grew up. The rest of the kids laughed. By 1975, Lebanon had descended into a brutal civil war, and Gad remembers death awaiting him every millisecond of the day. He spent his childhood years mindful of which streets had snipers when he went outside to play. But even then his family thought, This will pass. That is until someone showed up at their home to kill them—at which point the Saad family fled to rebuild their life in Canada. Gad went on to become a professor of marketing and evolutionary behavioral sciences at Concordia University in Montreal.

Many of us in Western democracies find ourselves saying the exact same things: This will pass over, everything will be fine. We say that even as Hamas flags and “I love Hezbollah” posters fly in cosmopolitan capitals across the West. I’ve been asking myself a lot over the past year: How worried should we be? Am I being hysterical? And is there a way to roll back this anti-civilizational impulse that has been let loose?

Those are just some of the questions I put to Gad Saad in our conversation. Gad says that witnessing the Lebanese Civil War gave him a crash course in the extremes of identity politics, tribalism, and illiberalism. And he says that immigrants like himself, who have lived without the virtues of the West—virtues like freedom of speech and thought, reason and liberalism—uniquely understand what’s at stake now in Western cultural and political life.

If you’re on X, I suspect you know Gad’s name. Unlike most professors, he has a million followers and a knack for satire, so much so that Elon Musk seems to be one of his biggest fans. He has become one of the most insightful and provocative thinkers on the risks of mob rule and extremism on the left.

Meanwhile, he is now having second thoughts about the university where he has worked for the past 30 years. That’s because Concordia is now widely regarded as one of the most antisemitic universities in North America. As a result, Gad is currently a visiting professor and global ambassador at Northwood University in Michigan, and he says he can’t face returning to Concordia and maybe even Canada, given the antisemitism that’s run rampant there. All of this, he argues, constitutes another war, different but related to the one he witnessed in Lebanon as a child. This one is a war on logic, science, common sense, and reality, here in the West.

These are ideas he explains in his important book, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense. In our wide-ranging conversation, I asked Gad where these parasitic ideas came from and why they’re encouraged in the West. And importantly, I ask if these trends are reversible.

To listen to the podcast, click below, or scroll down for an edited transcript of our conversation.


Gad Saad Survived War in Lebanon. He’s Warning About One in the West.
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On the ever-present threat of violence in Lebanon and his family’s decision to flee:

Bari Weiss: I wonder if you could take us back in time to the 1960s, to Lebanon before the war. You’re one of the last of a very small Jewish community living there. Take us back to the world you were born into.

Gad Saad: So I was born in 1964. We were steadfastly, doggedly refusing to leave Lebanon, despite the fact that, yes, you’re right, that there was a time when Lebanon was considered progressive, certainly by Middle Eastern standards. But much of my extended family had read the writing on the wall and had left earlier, prior to the civil war, many of whom left for Israel. And one maternal aunt left for Montreal. That’s one of the reasons why we ended up immigrating to Canada. Bit by bit, each of my siblings had left Lebanon, but I remained because I was a young kid.

And so, just to give your audience a feel of what it was like growing up Jewish in Lebanon: When I was a child, I was in a class where the teacher asked us to get up and tell what we’d like to be when we grew up. And so you get the typical professions. “I’d like to be a doctor. I’d like to be a police officer. I’d like to be a soccer player.” And one kid, who is a kid that knew that I was Jewish, got up and said, “When I grow up, I want to be a Jew killer,” to raucous applause and laughter. And that’s just the typical thing that you would see in the Middle East.

BW: You’re 10 or 11 years old, the war breaks out, and, of course, your family is forced to flee. Was there a particular moment that you remember? Knowing that we were going to have to get out of here to save our lives?

GS: There are many, many such moments, because death awaited you at every millisecond of the day. For example, my parents would tell me, “You can go out and play outside, but don’t pass this particular line, because that would open you up to the eyesight of the snipers that are on this building.” And I’m actually getting goosebumps saying this.

Why Lebanon’s identity politics should be a warning to America:

BW: For the listener who is only paying attention to Lebanon now because it’s in the news, can you briefly explain to us the nature of the civil war so that people don’t have to go running to Wikipedia, which is now overtaken by propagandists?

GS: So the Lebanese Civil War was from 1975 to 1990, officially. And during that time there are different estimates. But the most common estimate that I’ve seen is that roughly 150,000 people were killed. Now, in a country of, say, 3 million people, that gives you a sense that it’s pretty sizable. Now, different people will argue that, no, it was a political war. It wasn’t. The reality is that it had a clear religious timbre to it. There were several Christian militias that were fighting several Muslim militias. Now, the Muslim militias, when they’re not fighting against the Christians, could turn the guns against each other and fight one another. So it was complete chaos. The reality is that everything in Lebanon is viewed through the prism of religion. Who could be prime minister or who could be president? How many seats you get in the parliament is all based on your religion.

BW: I want you to explain the connection between the ideology that you began to encounter in the mid-1970s in Lebanon and the identity politics that has subsumed so much of our culture here in the West.

GS: Well, Lebanon is the perfect exemplar of what happens when identity politics are taken to their nefarious limits. Everything is viewed through the lens of which religion you belong to. So it really is identity politics on steroids. And so I see certain political movements, whether it be in the United States or in Canada or in the West in general, that are very much wedded to that idea. One of the parasitic ideas that I speak about in the book is precisely linked, as you said, to identity politics. And I tell people, hey, watch out, because if you want that perfect example of what identity politics is in terms of how you organize society, Lebanon is the place. Syria is the place. Iraq is the place. Rwanda is the place. So it’s never a good idea when people who live under a supposedly unified nation are more tied to whatever identity marker first defines them more so than the country. What made the United States great is that I could be anything, but nothing was superseded by my commitment to American values. Once you erase that, once you eradicate that foundational value, you’re going to run into problems. It might take 100 years, it might take 500 years, but you will get the exact same final outcome. ...

The furor over The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times’ non-endorsements may be warranted, but the true source of agita may be the growing irrelevance of the papers themselves.