JD Vance believes Democratic rhetoric is to blame for assassination attempts on Donald Trump—and that describing one’s opponent as a “fascist,” however accurate that may be, is beyond the pale. But apparently it’s perfectly fine to claim that the competition is enslaving people—which is exactly what the VP hopeful did on Tuesday.
Yes, a day after declaring, “we cannot tell the American people that one candidate is a fascist,” Vance said Kamala Harris has put America on a path to slavery, telling supporters in Michigan, “Harris wants to ship everybody’s job off to China and then turn them into welfare dependents. That is not a path to prosperity, that is a path to slavery, and it’s what Kamala Harris has been doing for three and a half years.”
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Trump, of course, regularly claims that Harris is a Communist, having dubbed her “Comrade Kamala.” And because he is both the king of inflammatory rhetoric and doesn’t know that Communism, fascism, and socialism are different things, he said at a rally last Thursday: “She’s a Marxist, communist, fascist, socialist.” A day later, he declared, “This is a radical-left, Marxist, communist, fascist.”
Anyway, at Tuesday’s Michigan rally, Vance also bizarrely had this to say:
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