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The tight U.S. presidential race heads into the final lap with less than two weeks until election day on November 5. It's too close to call who will emerge as the winning candidate, whether Kamala Harris for the Democratic ticket or Republican Donald Trump.
With the candidates neck and neck, a sliver of undecided voters in a handful of states will decide the result. Both parties are making a frenetic push to win those pivotal votes. With that frenetic atmosphere comes some feverish rhetoric.
Ultimately, though, it's a meaningless clown show.American "democracy" is offering a bizarre choice. On the one hand, Trump, we are told, is the man to prevent World War Three and nuclear armageddon. That is the latest spin from Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F Kennedy Jr, both former presidential candidates who defected from the Democratic camp.
On the other hand, Trump is assailed with potentially damaging warnings from former top aides that he is a "Hitler admirer" and "a fascist to the core." John Kelly, who served as Trump's Chief of Staff during his presidency (2016-2020), gave
interviews to the
New York Times and the
Atlantic this week in which he claimed that The Donald was a big fan of the Führer and pined to have Nazi Wehrmacht Generals in charge of the U.S. military.
Those lurid claims tally with another former senior Trump aide, General Mark Milley, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Milley is quoted in a new book by veteran
Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward,
describing Trump as a "fascist to the core" and the "greatest threat to our democracy."
Other former senior Republican figures have also rallied against Trump with dire predictions that he is seeking to impose a dictatorship. Trump has not helped quell such concerns with his own comments about how he would like to use the U.S. military to go after political opponents.
What a crazy quandary presented before voters. Vote for Trump to stop World War Three, or if you vote for Trump, then you are voting for Hitler reincarnated.
Comment: Kamala Harris couldn't do the Rogan podcast, so she declined his invitation.