President Donald Trump Donald John TrumpFederal prosecutor speaks out, says Barr 'has brought shame' on Justice Dept. Former Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Progressive group buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick MORE, backed by Republicans running for the House and Senate in the midterm elections, is closing the campaign with a politics of hate, race, fear, insults and lies.

When was the last time a president of the United States called the press the enemy of the people and insulted half the nation as though they are enemies of the state?

When was the last time a leader of the free world and commander in chief repeatedly praised foreign dictators who murder and torture their citizens and repeatedly insulted, berated and offended America’s strongest allies for democracy and freedom?

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When was the last time one of America’s two leading political parties launched against the voting rights of Americans a massive and aggressive attack that should be deemed illegal — even by the five Republican men on the Supreme Court — and is the current scandal of Republicans in Georgia and other states?

When was the last time a president, who was the favored candidate of a Russian dictator, falsely attacked the patriotism of players in the National Football League?

When was the last time any American politician was revealed by numerous fact-checkers to have spoken thousands of falsehoods, deceptions, inaccuracies and lies during his first two years in office?

When was the last time any American leader told men to live in fear of women who stand up for their right to not be beaten, raped or abused and praised a congressman for physically assaulting a reporter and bragged on tape that a powerful man like him can grope any woman at will?

No less an authority on gutter politics than former Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), who was chosen as Speaker of the House after a triumphant victory and then forced to resign in disgrace, recently told The Washington Post that “voters are motivated by fear and they’re also motivated by anger. When I see 7,000 people marching towards my border carrying Honduran flags and arrogantly demanding that we allow them to cross, the first reaction I feel is anger. They are trying to invade my home.”

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The tears you see are metaphorically flowing down the cheeks of the lady of liberty who resides in New York harbor. The words you hear are Republican politicians telling Americans to cower in fear because of a few thousand moms and dads risking their lives to give their sons and daughters a better life in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

When was the last time an American president ripped migrant children away from their parents and dared to call this barbaric cruelty an expression of American patriotism?

When was the last time a nominee for the highest court in the land gave an angry, vindictive and insult-laden partisan speech at his confirmation hearings and was confirmed after a female Republican senator from Maine — who perpetually pretends to be a moderate — ludicrously claimed that a woman forgot the identity of a man she knew who, she testified, assaulted her?

When was the last time a political party sought to strip health care from citizens suffering from pre-existing conditions, created massive budget deficits to finance radical and extravagant tax cuts for the rich and prepare an assault against Medicare and Social Security to pay down the deficit they created with their policies that serve the cause of wanton greed?

While the Senate elections are unpredictable, Democrats will win control of the House of Representatives because Americans have an innate decency and abiding patriotism, and will reject a one-party state dominated by those who campaign to continue and escalate the wrongs discussed in this column.

Gingrich may fear Honduran moms he worries will invade his home. Far more Americans fear an authoritarian president who calls foreign enemies friends and calls fellow Americans evil.

The caravan that counts is composed of huge numbers of political independents, Republicans of conscience — especially women — and Democrats who will walk together and vote for a better and nobler America on Election Day.

Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas) and former Rep. Bill Alexander (D-Ark.), who was chief deputy majority whip of the House of Representatives. He holds an LLM in international financial law from the London School of Economics.