DAVID MARCUS: Kamala Harris called Trump a “fascist.” Here's why it doesn't matter

Kamala Harris' campaign insisted for much of last week that her rival, former President Donald Trump, was “exhausted” and senile and that his alleged mental decline, fueled by anonymous leaks, was now so obvious that it was worth dealing with had to deal with him.

This week, that absurd talking point has been withdrawn and Trump is once again an indefatigable and evil genius, this time even a literal fascist.

Even for Donald Trump, this was a remarkably quick medical recovery.

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Now we've learned that Trump's former chief of staff and Marine General John Kelly says the former president “fits the general definition of fascist” and that he admires Adolf Hitler's generals.

I have no idea what “the general definition of fascism” means. It sounds a lot like the guy in The Big Lebowski is criticizing the sheriff of Malibu, but I know that; Local voters are unmoved by the ten-thousandth repetition of “Donald Trump is Hitler.”

In fact, you can imagine the communications staff at Harris HQ stroking their chins in deep contemplation until you quietly say, “Okay, what's worse than Hitler?” We can call Trump whatever it is.”

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There are a few reasons why this late attempt to paint Trump as a fascist won't work, and they are so conspicuous that they can be seen from space. These are all things I've heard directly from voters across the country.

The first, of course, is that Trump had already been president for four years and there was little to no fascism following, no roving bands of brown shirts, not even armbands, and the Trump administration did not lock up its political enemies.

That brings us to the second point: Voters know that the Biden-Harris administration has locked up its political opponents in the form of pro-life activists and January 6 defendants and is actively trying to put Trump in prison.

But Trump is somehow Trump and the more they impeach him, the closer he gets to the presidency.

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Far from being an embarrassment, the former president's iconic mugshot has become a popular T-shirt among his supporters, and among voters who aren't already die-hard anti-Trump supporters experienced that someone cited the legal cases as a reason for voting for or against him.

As a San Francisco Democrat said to me in August, “Suddenly he has four cases at once in an election year? Come on.”

Come on.

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Then, of course, there's the matter of the two assassination attempts on Trump, after which Democrats both wrung their hands, denounced political violence and promised to tone down the rhetoric, only to then draw little Hitler mustaches on every picture of Donald Trump they could about three Find it days later.

But the biggest and most important reason why Kamala's specious attack on fascism fails is that it tells voters nothing about their own lives.

Harris insists that Trump is only interested in himself, but what voters see clearly is that it is actually Harris who only cares about Trump, it is Harris who refuses to send a positive message for her own candidacy to convey, and again and again the “blah, blah, blah, the unique and present danger of Trump.

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What makes matters even more cynical and dangerous is that the Harris campaign is directly implying that half the country supports fascism, an absurdity that will surely only further divide families, friends and colleagues in order to give the Democrats the edge to secure power.

Kamala Harris said at a town hall Wednesday night that Gen. John Kelly's sudden “bombshell revelations” about Trump somehow being a fascist were an “emergency call to the American people,” and he was responding to an emergency, but it isn't Trump's alleged authoritarianism, but Harris' 4-alarm dumpster fire of a campaign.

To put out this fire, Kamala Harris must do the one thing she cannot do: she must be herself, she must be authentic, she must get voters to vote for her and not just against Trump.

In the twilight of the final days of the campaign, the curtain is closing on their chances of doing so.

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Again, calling Trump a fascist won't help Harris win, but it has a very good chance of hurting the country.

The only conclusion one can draw from this is that Democrats simply don't care.

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