Democrats are closing their campaign of “joy” this election by desperately smearing their political opponents as fascists hellbent on igniting an American Third Reich. It’s the same tired playbook from a political party that’s been projecting its own authoritarian impulses onto Republicans for years, and they ramp up the projection every time the GOP threatens the leftist regime’s grip on power.
Case in point: Former President Donald Trump held a sold-out rally in New York City’s Madison Square Garden Sunday night after surviving two assassination attempts and a lawfare crusade designed to bankrupt and imprison him. After efforts had failed to illegally thwart Public Enemy No. 1’s return to the ballot, Democrats and their deputy surrogates in the press hysterically depicted the Manhattan rally as a racist convention for a wannabe dictator. Apparently Trump forgot to play autocrat when he was first elected president eight years ago.
Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg published his latest hit on Trump several days before the New York City rally to defame the ex-president as an admirer of Adolf Hitler. In an article based almost entirely on anonymous sources, Goldberg said that Trump apparently mused that he wanted the kind of generals Hitler had. The story dropped just as Vice President Kamala Harris’ favorability ratings fell underwater in the final weeks of the election. The vice president’s lead in the RealClearPolitics aggregate of surveys has now been erased, with Trump leading Harris in the national polls and a majority of key battleground states.
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