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It goes beyond trashy. He's riling up his base with a show of violence and normalizing bloodsport. This is an intentional shift in social norms. His base laps it up-- government that's fun like a wrestling match!!??-- and it takes the place in our public life that we had reserved for sober discussion of our nation's wellbeing and handing it over to gleeful violence.
It's not "UFC bad," this is "drinking whiskey for breakfast," the context matters. They are exterminating their enemies and it's going to get worse.
I'm expecting that UFC fight to have at least one fight on the undercard that pits two ICE detainees against each other. Winner gets permanent residency (and gets to go back to their family). Loser goes straight to the Everglades. I bet they even ~~detain~~ fly their families in for the fight so you see the crushed look on the losers' kids when they realize they will never see their parent again. (It will sell even more on TV if the fighters are pregnant women....)
Kristi Noem literally suggested a gameshow where the winner got citizenship.