The outlandish hit piece on Donald Trump published this week by Jeffery Goldberg at The Atlantic, which was immediately denied on the record by all the people who were in the room with Trump, isn't just a shoddy smear that would never have passed muster in a newsroom 20 years ago.
It's part of a larger psy-op to justify mass post-election violence if Trump wins in November, to signal activists to reject the results of the election, to divide the military, and to coax an insurgency out of the radical left-wing base of the Democratic Party and unleash it on American cities.
Citing comments quoted in The Atlantic from former Trump chief of staff John Kelly, Harris explicitly compared Trump to Hitler and claimed that if elected he will rule as a dictator and unleash the military on his domestic political opponents.
Joe Biden's repeated insistence throughout the spring and early summer that Trump represented an existential threat to democracy created an opening for radicals and would-be assassins to take action against Trump.
Harris picked up right where Biden left off, repeating the line, over and over, that a second Trump term would be the end of our democracy, the last election, the rise of an authoritarian regime.
Now, as we come down to Election Day and Harris' campaign looks to be failing, they are going in one last time, more explicitly than before, to make the case that Trump is Hitler and his return to the White House means the end of American democracy.
Even if you think it goes too far to say that Harris and the Democrats are tacitly calling for violence in the event of a Trump victory, at the very least they are providing a permission structure for a vast swath of the Democrat Party to reject the results of the election.
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