When comparing Trump to Hitler falls on deaf ears

[mystery-ak]

When comparing Trump to Hitler falls on deaf ears
By
Haisten Willis
October 23, 2024 6:30 pm
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The well-worn playbook of painting former President Donald Trump as the biggest threat to democracy may have lost its shock value.

The reality set in for Vice President Kamala Harris this week after reports that Trump spoke fondly of dictators and pined for Adolf Hitler’s generals didn’t penetrate the news cycle.

“It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans,” Harris said during a hastily scheduled speech outside her official residence. “All of this is further evidence for the American people of who Donald Trump really is.”

That came after former Trump White House chief of staff John Kelly told the New York Times that Trump met his definition of a fascist and wanted to govern like a dictator, and The Atlantic reported that Trump wants “the kind of generals that Hitler had.”

“The bottom line is this: We know what Donald Trump wants,” Harris concluded, making one of her final pitches with less than two weeks to go before election day, “He wants unchecked power. The question in 13 days will be, what do the American people want?”

But the dark, fearful messaging could fall flat as voters have heard similar claims before, dating at least to Trump’s first run for president in 2016.

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[The_Reader_David]

With the possible exception George H.W. Bush, every Republican President since Nixon has been the second coming of Hitler according to the denizens of the fever swamps of the Left, and enough of the electorate remembers this (well at least as it applied to W.) that the accusation has no rhetorical power.   It has even less now that a lot of the Democrat base has embraced antisemitism.

[mountaineer]

Bad Hombre
@joma_gc
Total meltdown tonight at the Harris-Walz campaign:

- the Hitler hoax didn’t gain any traction; they’ve already overplayed that hand.

- the “f-ing Mexican” hoax backfired, with the sister of murdered soldier Vanessa Guillén going on National TV and calling Harris and the Atlantic out for politicizing her sister’s death.

- the “he grabbed my ass 32 years ago” hoax unraveled in less than an hour and is being universally mocked.

- a new WSJ journal poll released tonight shows Kamala losing the popular vote by 3 points.

- Kamala bombed the CNN Town Hall which was supposed to be her opportunity to present her closing argument to undecided voters.

The joy is gone.
10:31 PM · Oct 23, 2024