He's a fascist dictator, not a communist one. And when the 'titans of industry' care more about their bottom line than democratic principles, that's a sign to rally against them, not frame one's argument with an echo of McCarthyism.

I mean so close, I do understand what she's trying to get across with things like Intel, yet absolutely dumb messaging.

Misleading, editorialized title. Any worthwhile journalist wouldn't quote somebody on words they didn't literally say.

You are not interpreting this correctly, and neither is TheHill / Independent / whatever.

Think about it step by step.

1. Some time ago, America was hardcore opposed to the USSR and the Communist bloc. Americans like her grew up hearing comparisons with Communist dictators and how they did X, Y, and Z. The bogeyman many people grew up with was a communist dictator who hated free speech, co-opted the state and therefore personally controlled industry, cracked down on artistic expression...
2. That's what we're dealing with now. Not from the perspective of a McCarthy Boogeyman; Kamala isn't saying he's a communist. But from the adult perspective where we're supposed to care about free speech, a private industry, liberal art... Trump is the thing people grew up hearing about.

Tldr; Kamala didn't say this. This never happened. Watch the interview and think about what she means. Journalism strikes again~

Edit: Here's a simpler example: "We went years hearing from the right about demonic liberals abusing kids. Well Trump is that—that's what we're dealing with now."

That isn't saying Trump is a demonic liberal. It means "the thing everyone hated is here in a different form"

Propaganda against socialism and communism still going strong in the usa

Well. That tells me all I need to hear. The DNC had decided to lose. Again.

Good luck. You're gonna need it.

She still doesn't get it. Capitalism inevitably leads to fascism. It's a core feature.

How the hell is Trump a communist? What is she smoking damn.

The support for capitalism over all else is expected, neoliberals do little else, but this level of delusion? Worrying.

Fucking hell did she really need to throw in the red scare bullshit?

Wow and Harris just airballs it. Jesus.

In point of fact, capitalism is demonstrably quite enamored with authoritarianism in more places than just the US.

Did she actually say the quote in the title? Or is that the editor's work? In context it seems like she was causing Trump a tyrant, as are communist dictators, but not a communist:

She was pressed on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” about why she didn’t anticipate such action and responded that she believed “titans of industry would be guardrails for our democracy.”

“And one by one by one, they have been silent, they have been … feckless,” Harris said. “It’s not like they’re going to lose their yacht or their house in the Hamptons.”

“Democracy sustains capitalism. Capitalism thrives in a democracy. And, right now, we are dealing with, as I called him at my speech on the Ellipse, a tyrant,” she said, referencing her rally last year on the White House Ellipse in Washington. “We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That’s what we’re dealing with right now in Donald Trump. And these titans of industry are not speaking up,”

Maybe I'm being too charitable. But that's how I read it, perhaps because I don't want to believe that senior Democrats can't tell a communist from a fascist.

Harris is certainly well educated enough to know that Trump is not a communist; presumably these dipshit comments are for right-wingers, because she's trying to appeal to them again.

Goddamned neoliberals

Ma'am, with the greatest possible respect, Trump is as much a communist as the Nazis were socialists.

Oh my fucking god shut the fuck up Kamala.

Trump is exhibiting classic dictator behaviors. Dictatorships are not exclusively right or left. History is full of dictators who use "communism" or fascism as a base.

This is where people conflate and confuse things like the FL Cubans who didn't like Kamala because "she's a socialist/Communist and I came from a country with a bad leader like that!"

They can't distinguish a ruling style from the underlying governing structure.

A dictator is a dictator is a dictator.

And you can look at dictatorial regimes across the spectrum and it's the authoritarianism and the dictator that is the common thread.

hilarious to hear Americans use terms like Socialist, Communist, Fascist even at the levels of supposedly highly educated and clearly they have no idea what they are talking about.

This feels similar to what Biden tried to do (which failed spectacularly, btw) when he tried to outflank Trump on the border from the right, the summer before the election.

Its not clear understands what she's doing here and is confusing the language of communism with that of authoritarianism. So she's saying Trump isn't capitalist enough? Like who is it she thinks this rhetoric is going to move? Who is this argument designed to work on?

Democracy sustains capitalism. Capitalism thrives in a democracy

Exactly what a neoliberal would say.

A fascist dictator, not a communist dictator.

Because calling your enemies commie leftists is definitely not something fascists do.

She can't say fascist because fascism is the merger of corporate and state power which is what the US has been building since forever.

TIL Harris doesn't know the difference between communism and facism.

This seems to be a misquote, unless this is a separate quote they just didn’t bother to put in the article.

My read is she’s saying Trump is a dictator like they had in “communist” countries. I would frame this a bit differently but there certainly are similarities.

Libs love losing and blue MAGA will eat all of this shit she's saying while advertising her crappy book up.

These people don't even know what a communist is. They just have "red bad" drilled so far into their heads that it's right next to "woke" as a catch-all term for bad things.

What an incredibly stupid thing to say as one of the only public statements since losing an election to a bozo.