It wasn’t a Nazi rally.

Madison Square Garden, the world’s largest arena where America’s most famous icons perform. was packed with patriotic Americans He’s cheering on the formidable band of Avengers, as Donald “Captain America” ​​Trump and some of his surrogates call themselves.

Trump’s hometown of deep blue New York, where unpopular Democratic leaders tried to imprison him, welcomed the former president as a conquering hero, packing the stadium and thousands more New Yorkers set out from Trump Tower to cheer his motorcade. .

But Trump is not alone in his third and most important presidential bid. He is backed by a surprising group of five extraordinarily successful Americans, including two converted Democratic presidential candidates who join him on stage.

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Jordan Peterson calls them the “X-Men,” Marvel Comics superheroes, “misfit mutant” geniuses who come to save the Republic. They are Trump’s warriors against the Deep State monsters and the Blob of censorship, surveillance and war.

In the Democrats’ last desperate campaign message, they included the lie that Trump was Hitler and half of America was Nazi.

There is a Tony Stark-like science genius, a literal X-Man, Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, and a space explorer who will send men to Mars. A libertarian, he He openly declared his support for Trump After the first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Then there is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of Democratic royalty, who abandoned his own presidential campaign and hitched his wagon to Trump as the only candidate standing against the deep state. there is.

Another former Democrat, Army Reserve officer and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, not only threw her support behind Trump, but also became a republican. As Peterson says, Gabbard is everything Kamala Harris claims to be; successful, outspoken and principled.

There’s Vivek Ramaswamy, the smart young entrepreneur who abandoned his own presidential bid to join Trump’s campaign.

Last but not least, Trump’s brilliant running mate is JD Vance, “the hillbilly who saved himself from the Appalachians by his own bootstraps,” as Peterson describes him.

A special mention on the Trump A-Team is former First Lady Melania Trump, who introduced her husband just after 7 p.m.

To the chagrin of Trump’s critics, he stands by Trump, is publicly affectionate towards him at the Al Smith dinner, and asserts his powerful role in the campaign with social commentary in his own book and social media videos.

“This city and America needs its magic back,” she said, promising that her husband would give Americans “the future we deserve.”

He then greeted her onstage with a warm hug, three kisses and a few pats on the back, and they embraced to her trademark background song, “God Bless the USA.”

“I’m so excited to be back in the city I love. . . “This is the town that taught me that Americans can do anything they want,” Trump said.

“Are you in better shape now than you were four years ago?” he asked as the crowd roared “No.”

“I am here today with a message of hope to all Americans,” he says, promising a new “golden age.”

He boasted: “We are establishing the largest, broadest coalition. . . including union workers and border patrol. . . police and firefighters. . . The Republican Party has become the party of inclusivity.”

He promised: “I will prevent World War III from happening. . . I will bring back freedom of expression. . . We will stop illegal immigration. . . “We will not be occupied, we will not be occupied, we will not be occupied, we will not be conquered.”

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He told the crowd that their votes would show “the most sinister and corrupt forces that this nation does not belong to them.”

He also said, “My discourse will end wars.

“Kamala broke it but I will fix it. . . It is just a ship (of the Deep State). We are facing something much bigger than Harris or Biden. We are running against the huge, vicious, twisted radical left machine that runs the Democratic Party. . . this amorphous group of people. We have to beat. . . “The enemy within.”

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Musk promised that DOGE would take $2 trillion out of the $6.5 trillion Biden-Harris budget.

“We will take the government off your back and out of your pocket,” he said. “The future will be amazing.”

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was greeted on stage with Kid Rock’s song “American Bad Ass” as he announced that he was not leaving the Democratic Party. “The Democratic Party abandoned me.”

It says it used to be the party of “constitutional rights, civil liberties and free speech” that “opposed censorship and surveillance, opposed the CIA and the military industrial complex.”

But the Democratic Party has become the exact opposite of what it once was. “The party of war, the party of the CIA”. . . “The party of Wall Street and the party of Bill Gates, who just gave (them) $50 million.”

“Harris’ campaign is proud to have received the support of 50 former CIA officers, including John Bolton and Dick Cheney. These are the people who gave us the war in Iraq, the worst foreign policy disaster this country has ever experienced. These are the people who gave us the Patriot Act, the surveillance law. . . Those who seek to undermine voting rights. . . Weaponizing federal agencies.”

“This is the party of Wall Street, Big Banks, Big Data, Big Tech, military contractors, Big Pharma, Big Ag. . . We deserve a president. . . “It will restore the moral authority of the United States, end the war state, and rebuild the middle class.”

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Vance paid tribute to Trump, who “gave up the easy life to save the United States.”

“When they couldn’t beat him, they tried to bankrupt him, they tried to impeach him, they tried to put him in federal prison, and when that didn’t work, they even tried to kill him. (But) ready to fight, ready to win, ready to make America great again.”

As Peterson says in a new video in which he psychoanalyzes the former president, any leader who is comfortable surrounding himself with such bright people does not suffer from the pathological narcissism that Trump’s enemies attribute to him.

On the contrary, Trump takes great pride in his band of X-men stars, who helped him build a coalition of traditional working-class Democrats, blacks, Hispanics, libertarians and Republicans that he believes will unite the country behind his presidency.

Madison Square Garden was just a taste of what was to come.