A week before the election, Trump will hold his most unsettling spectacle yet | Sidney Blumenthal

Donald Trump has planned a spectacular extravaganza in Madison Square Garden on 27 October , a week before the election.

Trump will revive the memory of the infamous American Nazi mass rally held there on 20 February 1939 through his reflected Hitlerian rhetoric.

Trump has threatened to destroy CBS , ABC and the New York Times .

Trump ’s rally, through the rhyme of history, will be a rebuke to the greatest campaign speech delivered by Franklin D Roosevelt , which, though given 88 years ago in the Garden on 31 October 1936 , rings remarkably contemporary.

Three years after FDR spoke at the Garden , another rally was held there, on 20 February 1939 , under the sponsorship of the German American Bund.

The Nazis claimed the mantle of true Americanism and Christian nationalism.

Roy Cohn could tell him how to skirt the law and ingratiate himself with the mob.

Roy Cohn was not a Virgil to guide his protege to respectability.

Trump has only been truly comfortable strutting in his old New York , conning and threatening, greasing the palms of the mafia, stiffing his contractors and workers.

Time and again, the city spat him out.