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Ever since Donald Trump came down that escalator nine years ago, the geography of American politics has been moving in one direction: blue cities, red country.

From the moment he rode a golden escalator downward and into the queasy gut of American political life, Donald Trump did it his way — unbridled by precedent, often powered by “alternative facts” and dedicated to the proposition that only he could “make America great again.”

By the time Trump had glided down his golden escalator to announce his candidacy a year earlier, the nation was accustomed to rancor and sharpening divisions.

My entire professional life has been in direct opposition to the radical ideology he’s adopted at a quickening rate since Trump first descended that escalator.

Giuliani's speech carried echoes of Trump's presidential run announcement, in which he rode down an escalator to call Mexicans "criminals" and "rapists" before adding that "some of them, I'm sure, are good people."