Discredit Where Discredit Is Due September 25, 2024September 24, 2024 Trump gets compared with history’s greatest villain because his rhetoric is really that bad: . . . At a rally this past weekend in North Carolina, Trump declared that “a vote for Kamala Harris means 40 or 50 million more illegal aliens will invade across our borders, stealing your money, stealing your jobs, stealing your life.” Chillingly, he added that migrants were already “attacking villages and cities all throughout the Midwest.” This followed earlier remarks in Arizona, in which he alleged that “young American girls” are “being raped and sodomized and murdered by savage criminal aliens.” Vance has likewise baselessly accused Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, of not only butchering and eating people’s pets, but also of killing people. “Murders are up by 81 percent because of what Kamala Harris has allowed to happen in this small community,” Vance said on CNN. The Clark County, Ohio, district attorney, a Republican, unequivocally refuted Vance’s claim, noting that local murder rates were higher under Trump. What’s more, across his 21 years in the prosecutor’s office, Daniel Driscoll said, “we have not had ANY murders involving the Haitian community — as either the victims or as the perpetrators of those murders.” . . . I’m not saying [Vance] and Trump actually WANT to start a modern-day pogrom, but if they did, I’m not sure what they’d be doing differently. This piece is so worth reading in full. And perhaps sharing with any good people you know who’ve fallen under Trump’s spell, as so many good Germans were once entranced by similar rhetoric. BONUS RACES: > We need just three red-to-blue flips to break the Republican super-majority in the 120-seat Florida House. The Sun Sentinel endorses my friend Jim Brenner to be one of them. Chip in a few bucks? > Running as an Independent, Dan Osborn aims to turn a red Senate seat purple — in Nebraska. I’m co-hosting this zoom Monday at 6pm Eastern time. Consider “buying” a free ticket — and ponying up only if you like what you hear.