Harris’ ‘Unity’ Schtick Makes Her ‘Fascist’ Rhetoric Look Ridiculous

With one week to go until Election Day, Kamala Harris is still trying to figure out what she’s doing. She wants you to think she’s the brat, “joyful,” cool aunt. But she also wants to convince you that her opponent is literally Hitler and the stakes have never been more dire — that democracy is at risk of dying in darkness and she’s the only one who can save it. Those Republicans are horrible fascist sympathizers, but you know what, she’s willing to work with them.

It makes about as much sense as anything she’s ever said.

In a speech to Washington, D.C. bureaucrat types on Tuesday night, Harris tried to walk back the nagging, negative, “Trump is Hitler” rhetoric she’s been drumming all week. Coincidentally, this shift came two days after a pro-Harris super PAC took to the pages of The New York Times to flash the warning light at the campaign: Screaming that Trump is a fascist “Is Not That Persuasive.”

“America, for too long we have been consumed with too much division, chaos, and mutual distrust,” she cooed on Tuesday night. “We have to stop pointing fingers and start locking arms.”

Rich stuff from the lady who called an emergency press conference from the vice president’s official residence to compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and label him as “incredibly dangerous” — and whose running mate compared Republicans to Nazis because Trump held a rally at Madison Square Garden.

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“Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe people who disagree with me are the enemy,” Harris continued on Tuesday. “He wants to put them in jail. I’ll give them a seat at the table.”

Last I checked, it was the Biden-Harris Justice Department trying to put Trump in jail. It was Trump who spent four years in the White House acting decidedly not like a dictator, and who declined to prosecute his prior presidential opponent for her private email scandal because it would be “very divisive for the country.”

Harris couldn’t even get through her attempt at sounding conciliatory without referring to Trump as a “petty tyrant,” a “wannabe dictator,” and “someone who is unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance, and out for unchecked power.”

What a unifying tone!

Joe Biden tried this “unifier-in-chief” schtick four years ago. It was obvious then that he was a bitter old man faking a cheesy grandpa persona. Once he became president and started prosecuting his political opponent and delivering angry, ominous speeches calling Trump and “MAGA forces” a threat, it was even more obvious the promises of “unity” were a desperate vote grab.

Now, in a last-ditch effort to recover from her tumble in the polls, Harris is trying to do the same thing.

“I will work with everyone: Democrats, Republicans, and independents,” she said. Even the Americans she’s spent all week painting as Nazis? Even those her doddering boss just called “garbage”? What about the Americans whose hometowns she has flooded with criminals from foreign countries? The pro-life protesters her administration’s DOJ has thrown in prison?

Kamala Harris will say whatever she thinks benefits her. It’s why she’s spent her entire three-month campaign flip-flopping on her previous convictions. Right now, she can’t decide whether it helps her most to smear Trump and his supporters as Nazis or to promise to “build consensus and reach compromise” with them. The fact that she’s doing both shows neither one is anything more than a cheap campaign trick.

Elle Purnell is the elections editor at The Federalist. Her work has been featured by Fox Business, RealClearPolitics, the Tampa Bay Times, and the Independent Women’s Forum. She received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @_etreynolds.