In a recent interview with the National Pulse, former president Trump referred to migrants entering the United States as responsible for poisoning the blood of America.

TRUMP: "Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they're terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we're witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It's poisoning the blood of our country."

So with complaints here that the term "Nazi" is used too casually, does this qualify for condemnation as Nazi rhetoric?

Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat said the language that he's using echoes language used in Nazi propaganda by Adolf Hitler when Hitler actually said that Jewish people and migrants were "causing a blood poisoning' of Germany." Hitler wrote about the 'contamination of the blood' or 'blood poisoning' in Mein Kampf.

While clearly this is the language that is often employed by White supremacists and nativists, does this language qualify as "Nazi rhetoric"?

Certainly Trump cultists here have been waging war against migrants with greater frequency, beating the drum with "NYC Hospitals Overwhelmed By Illegals," "The immigration debate is over," "More life in blue cities," and other posts as Fox, Newsmax, Twitter, and congressional republicans amplify the fear and hatred of migrants.

So is this a new, intentionally more dangerous path being paved by Trump or merely an attempt by him to reignite the "Mexicans are rapists" escalator flames he fanned and that lit the torches of his cultists when he launched his first presidential campaign?

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