As we finally approach the last few days of this election cycle — and the first few days of the next election cycle — Kamala Harris, her campaign and her legacy media comrades are doubling-down, tripling-down and even quadrupling-down on their favorite (and, at times, only) play: that Donald Trump and anyone who dares to vote for him is a fascist.

Trump’s rhetoric? Just like Hitler! Trump’s policies? Straight out of the Nazi Party handbook! Even Trump’s campaign rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden was, apparently, just like the Nazi rally during the 1930s.

“If you don’t want to be compared to the folks who held rallies like that in 1939, don’t hold rallies like that,” announced MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, in a hilarious example of left-wing circular logic.

Even Kamala Harris herself, when asked at a CNN town hall whether her opponent is a fascist, replied, “Yes, I do,” even though I doubt she could spell fascist, let alone define it.

Of course, this accusation is sheer lunacy on its face when we consider that there were Orthodox Jews in attendance at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, praying in the aisles and even wrapping tefillin. Meanwhile, Jews had to meet in secret at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago to stay one step ahead of the pro-Hamas wing of Harris’ party.

But it’s not enough to hide behind the tokenism of identity politics to debunk the accusation of fascism that has become as common in modern politics as kissing babies and calling your opponent a liar who hates the poor and veterans and America.

Why? Because these accusations are designed to politically profit from an ideology that is responsible for tens (if not hundreds) of millions of deaths.

The definition of fascism may be loosely debated in modern times, but in the context of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler — with whom Trump is routinely compared by his opponents — fascism has a clear meaning that goes beyond accusations of racism, bigotry or authoritarianism: other labels casually thrown at Trump with or without justification.

Both Mussolini and Hitler sought to not only undermine but destroy democracy through the use of celebrated military and paramilitary action — including the murder of political rivals — in favor of an all-powerful central state.

Donald Trump might say things that make squishy liberals supremely uncomfortable, but when we consider his nomination of constitutional judges, reduction of federal power and — yes — his (eventual) departure from power, the differences between him and Hitler are beyond obvious.

And what about the foundation of virulent and genocidal antisemitism that underpinned the European fascism of the 20th century? Trump is undeniably the most pro-Israel and arguably the most pro-Jewish president … ever. Hitler? Not so much.

At this point, it’s clear that the cry of “fascism” is ringing hollow as a last-ditch desperate attempt to scupper Trump’s election hopes. But the fact that it’s ringing hollow is also a problem.

We cannot afford to forget that every one of these careless accusations denies the true horror of true fascism, and that invoking the bloodiest century in human history is akin to gleefully jumping on every single one of these millions of graves just to win an election.

Kamala Harris should be ashamed of herself.

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