The last time I attended a Trump rally, it was like someone was dribbling ice water down my back

The last time I attended a Donald Trump rally was in 2016 , right after he won the election, in Hershey , Pennsylvania .

I was in a sea of people who were proud of their ideological deformities.

For the past eight years , Trump rallies have delivered the same arc, the same attendees and the same energy.

Trump has turned these events into a kind of blood sport.

The Women’s March in 2017 would have happened when these girls were still in elementary school; now they were being handed a baton that we all hoped wouldn’t be needed anymore.

This particular rally has been compared by many, including Tim Walz , to another one that happened at MSG in 1939 , when the German American Bund held a “ Pro American Rally” The Bund , supportive of Hitler and the push toward fascism in Europe , also had a charismatic leader prosecuted for misappropriating funds and a national secretary eventually convicted of perjury.

Frida Ghitis : We are committed to the same resistance, the same mistakes, and the same enemies.

Ghitis says we witness history as it happens and hope that there’s new information to glean from it.

She says the only surety we have about our post-Election Day world is that it’ll be something that’s already happened before. Fascism bleeds into a venue better known for hosting the Knicks .