This is deplorable. The Harris people are bitterly clinging to their Nazi and garbage lines of attack, insisting that nobody cares that President Joe Biden called half the country “garbage.”
The Harris campaign is scrambling to contain the damage, but the problem is that Joe Biden just said the not-so-quiet part out loud. Democrats have been calling Republicans Nazis so often that the accusation has lost its sting. It is almost background noise, as you can see in the polls. Democrats spent a week trying to drive home the point using General Mattis’ comments, and Trump’s numbers are up. Not because people think he is a Nazi, but because the accusation has lost its oomph.
The residual, though, is that Republicans got the message loud and clear: Democrats and the elite HATE HATE HATE us, and now the “garbage” comment resonates because it is a new way of…