Peter Van Buren’s American Conservative column takes up the rich subject of “Why Harris lost” to Donald Trump in last week’s election. This might be “ironic,” in the Alanis Morissette sense:
When asked whether Trump or Harris “would do a better job” of “defending against threats to democracy,” 43 percent picked Trump, while 40 percent chose Harris. This was the same result when Biden was the nominee. While over half said that threats to democracy were important to them, the voters trusted Trump (44 percent) more than Biden (33 percent) to protect democracy….
Most damning of all, Harris’s Hitler remarks were called out by an actual Holocaust survivor. In a powerful video clip circulating on social media, Jerry Wartski blasted Harris and her fellow Dems for comparing Trump to Hitler and his supporters to Nazis.
“Adolf Hitler invaded Poland when I was nine years old. He murdered my parents and most of our family. I know more about Hitler than Kamala will ever know in a thousand lifetimes,” he said. “For Harris to accuse President Trump of being like Hitler is the worst thing I’ve ever heard in my 75 years living in the United States.”
I posted the Wartski video here. I have posted it again below.
Mr. Wartski was one of those in the highly “diverse” crowd in attendance at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on October 27. One need not have Wartski’s lived experience to be revolted by the invocation of Hitler to disparage Trump for narrow partisan purposes. One need only have a sense of decency and some knowledge of historical reality. Kamala Harris, the Harris campaign, and their media allies lacked the decency to refrain from this repellent theme.
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