The Pits
The Democrat Party is making its final case to the American people: Our opponent is Hitler and he wants to stop you jerking off
Just when you think the Harris campaign can’t sink any lower, it does.
This has been a week in which we’ve seen the Democrats plumb new depths. It’s clear they’re out of ideas, out of enthusiasm—out of time. They’re desperate and they don’t know what to do. Election day is almost here. Kamala Harris can’t stop shouting. Even ice-cool Barry Obamna has taken his hands out of his pockets and raised the volume.
It’s bad. Really bad.
Two things stick out. The first is the “Trump is Hitler” rhetoric. It’s getting worse.
This isn’t new. Trump has been “Orange Hitler” to a certain kind of hysterical retarded person since he first came down that escalator, nearly a decade ago.
And when Trump isn’t the living incarnation of history’s most famous art-school reject, he’s someone else bad from history, usually Julius Caesar.
I won’t say those parallels are carefully chosen. The Caesar parallel, at least, has specific content and context. It’s meant to evoke the final days of the Roman Republic and tell us that Trump, like old Julius when he made that fateful decision to cross the Rubicon, is preparing to bring to an end the centuries-old experiment in self-government we call American democracy.
Trump is an existential threat to the United States of America. Got it.
But the Caesar thing is also meant to tell us what to do, and that’s where it gets much more sinister. Every schoolboy used to know that Caesar was only stopped by a conspiracy of his fellow senators, who stabbed him 23 times on the Senate floor.
When people like Robert Kagan, Victoria Nuland’s husband, tells us a “Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable,” and make references to Caesar and the article has a photomontage of Trump’s head on a bust of Caesar, they’re telling us the same thing needs to be done to stop Trump as stopped Caesar, only we can do it in advance. I’ve called this “the Brutus Option,” and I predicted way back in December that Trump would be subject to an assassination attempt during this campaign. There have now been at least two, maybe even four.
Sic semper tyrannis, and all that.
The Hitler thing is just a stand-in for the Devil or Satan or Beelzebub or whatever he used to be called. The ultimate evil. It’s just a way of saying, “This man is bad.” So bad, in fact, that we don’t need to talk about specifics, we don’t need to debate, we can roll those two syllables off our tongues—HIT-ler—and be done with it.
We say the name and that’s enough. It’s why Vladimir Putin is called “Hitler” too, or “Putler” as my friend Bronze Age Pervert has it, because it means we don’t have to talk about the reasons why a Russian leader might invade Ukraine that have something to do with NATO expansionism in violation of sworn promises and State Department-backed color revolutions on Russia’s doorstep and so on. Putin is just an insane despot. And insane despots, by definition, can’t be reasoned with. They just have to be beaten and either locked up or killed.
You know this, I’m sure.
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