Amusing headline, but also an interesting look at Kampalla's handler's marketing program from a public relations pro

How’d that work out for you, honey?

They Did Nazi It Coming: How Comparing Trump to Hitler Cost Kamala the Election

I’d say it was more one of a thousand cuts that, combined, killed her campaign, but allowing for the author’s bit of hyperbole (leave it to a PR guy to think that his industry controls the world) he makes a valid point.

Of all the Harris-Walz team’s boneheaded, braindead decisions, riding with the Fuhrer until the bitter end was nummer eins. Throughout the entire presidential campaign, their primary PR message was “Trump is Hitler,” and they did everything possible to tie the Right to the Reich. They were relentless and unyielding.

It was also PR malpractice.

Look, if you honestly, truly believe a candidate is Adolf Hitler, you’re not going to vote for him. Of all the constituencies Harris-Walz didn’t have to fight tooth and nail for, it was the “Trump is Hitler” true believers! They were going to vote for Kamala Harris anyway, irrespective of ANYTHING she said or did.

Why? You guessed it: Because “Trump is Hitler.”

It’s PR malpractice to squander resources on captured demos, especially when you’re trailing badly elsewhere!

For crying out loud, it’s 2024. Trump has “literally been Hitler” since 2016. We’ve all heard it ad nauseum. For the life of me, I don’t understand why the Democrats assumed voters who were unconvinced the first 50 gazillion times would change their mind after 50 gazillion and one.

They would’ve been better served by lighting their money on fire. They wasted so much time and energy.

But it also cost them something else — and in doing so, it (at least partially) cost the Democrats the entire election.

… [T] hink about the average, run-of-the-mill American who heard yet ANOTHER pitch from the Democrats about “Trump is Hitler.”

Do they pay attention? Did it move them?

Or did the Democrats “train” them to ignore whatever they say next because they’re unserious, dishonest, and unworthy of their time? 

To any level-headed American, comparing someone to Hitler is the lowest of the low. He’s the ugliest, most loathsome monstrosity of the modern age — the architect of the Holocaust and a genocidal Nazi warmonger. It’s not a trivial allegation. 

If you’re gonna call someone Hitler, you better bring the receipts!

And once again, the year is 2024. The American people have a pretty good feel for who Donald Trump is — and who he isn’t — by now. They know his strengths, weaknesses, silliness, and eccentricities. They know sometimes (to quote Joe Rogan) he says “crazy s**t.”

But they also know he’s NOT Adolf Hitler!

That was the hidden cost of the Democrats’ “Trump is Hitler” PR campaign. It wasn’t just time and money they lost. It also cost them their credibility. 

And it made the American people ignore everything else they had to say.

In retrospect, it’s actually kind of impressive: The Democrats couldn’t even get calling someone Hitler right! Even THAT backfired. 

Now that takes talent!