Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of
the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein.
Kamala Harris didn’t actually call Trump a Nazi, but she
might as well have. Echoing allegations by disgruntled
Former White House Chief of Staff John
Kelly, she declared that Donald Trump wants a military that will be "loyal
to him personally" and "obey his orders even when he tells them to
break the law or abandon their oath to the constitution of the United
States."
Vice President Kamala Harris continued on, saying, "It
is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke
Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of six million Jews and
hundreds of thousands of Americans. All of this is further evidence for the
American people of who Donald Trump really is."
And there it is, Godwin’s
Law. The longer the election dragged on, the more inevitable it had been that
someone would bring in the Holocaust. Not in the sort of, “We must never forget
the Holocaust,” kind of way, but in the sort of, “He’s the author of the Final
Solution, Adolf Hitler himself,” kind of way.
Harris running mate Tim Walz was happy to run with it, remarking
that Trump’s alleged comment regarding Hitler’s generals “makes me sick as
hell.”
“Folks, the guardrails are gone. Trump is descending into
this madness — a former president of the United States and the candidate for
president of the United States says he wants generals like Adolf Hitler had,”
said Walz, who has lied
about his military service.
Walz said he was a retired command sergeant major, but he
wasn’t. He claimed he carried weapons “in war,” but never saw combat. In truth,
he skipped out on his battalion only months before they were deployed to Iraq.
J.D. Vance, among many others, condemned these falsehoods as “stolen valor.”
This is something to keep in mind when weighing the credibility of those Walz “orange
Hitler”-style slurs. But it gets worse with Walz. Much worse, in this Jewish
writer’s opinion.
From The
Hill:
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, compared former President Trump’s Sunday rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden in to a 1939 pro-Nazi event.
“Donald Trump’s got this big rally going at Madison Square Garden,” Walz said at an event in Henderson, Nev. “There’s a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid-1930s at Madison Square Garden.”
An American Nazi Party held a rally at Madison Square Garden in February 1939 that lured 20,000 supporters to the iconic New York City landmark.
“And don’t think that he doesn’t know for one second exactly what they’re doing there,” Walz said.
When Walz speaks, he draws a picture. We can see that pro-Hitler rally in our minds. It hits you right in the kishkes.
Up next is Hillary Clinton. The former (failed) 2016 presidential candidate picked off where Walz left off, continuing on with the same “Trump is a Nazi” narrative, claiming that Trump with this rally was reenacting the infamous Nazi rally, held in that very same space. “Trump [is] actually re-enacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939,” said Clinton to CNN’s Kaitlin Collins.
“President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo-Nazis,
fascists in America were lining up to essentially pledge their support for the
kind of government that they were seeing in Germany,” said Former President
Clinton’s wife never-to-be-president Clinton.
"It is clear from John Kelly's words that Donald Trump is someone who I quote 'certainly falls into the general definition of fascist.' Who in fact, vowed to be a dictator on day one, and vowed to use the military as his personal militia to carry out his personal and political vendetta,'" said Clinton.
Harris, meanwhile, is not better than Walz or Clinton, only more boring—she doesn't believe her own rhetoric but is determined to get to the top
with her gleaming eyes and maniacal laugh. She’s not even original. In fact,
she’s a yawn. And frankly, unintelligent.
“I invite you to listen and go online to listen to John
Kelly … who has told us Donald Trump said, why — essentially, ‘Why aren’t my
generals like those of Hitler’s, like Hitler.'
“The American people
deserve to have a president who encourages healthy debate … and certainly not
comparing oneself in a clearly admiring way to Hitler.
“This is a serious, serious issue. And we know who he is. He
admires dictators.
“The American people deserve to have a president who
encourages healthy debate, works across the aisle, not afraid of good ideas
wherever they come from, but also maintains certain standards about how we
think about the role and the responsibility, and certainly not comparing
oneself in a clearly admiring way to Hitler.”
Asked if Trump were a fascist, Harris' bluffed right on through. “Yes,
I do,” she said. “Yes, I do.”
There was something in her smile. Something sly in it for that tiny split second.
Well, what else could Kamala Harris, famous for her word
salads, do to win at this point but smear her opponent? She wants to be
president, but has done so little to articulate her policies. Or rather, she’s
articulated many words that go good with Thousand Island dressing.
As November 5 draws nearer, Harris seems to have stopped even
trying to outline what it is she intends to do if elected president. Instead, she has begun this slow crescendo of hateful tropes, each day ranting and raving about
Donald Trump ever more vigorously, insistently and repeatedly telling us that
Trump is a very bad person.
There is a name for this. It’s called negative campaigning.
Whether or not smearing one’s opponent is an effective strategy is up for
debate, but it certainly seems the coward’s way out of articulating an actual
policy. Something Harris can’t and hasn’t done.
We have seen Kamala Harris a lot these past weeks, Tim Walz, less so. I think they hide him. He’s scary. He has crazy eyes. And I did not like the look of hatred that flashed on his face, that downturn of the mouth when Walz was asked by a reporter about the hostages in Gaza—it was so quick I had to watch the exchange a few times to confirm it. Then the mask came down and Walz was Mister Friendly Guy once more—all smiley like he didn’t hear the reporter’s question. But we all saw it. I saw it. I saw Mr. Evil Man rear his ugly head for that little almost undetectable blip in time.
I dread the thought of Walz in a position of influence.
Kamala is a power-hungry puppet who will not be kind to Israel should she win,
but she is too stupid to craft or carry out policy, and that’s where others
come in.
Will Walz distinguish himself as an advisor? Will he have a
voice? More likely Walz is a signal to Israel-hating voters: Here is someone in
Kamala’s corner.
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