The manufactured “joy” proclaimed by the Democratic Party upon the coronation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s nominee has been replaced by a desperation no more exemplified than by the latest push to declare former President Donald Trump to be another Adolf Hitler.

During a town hall on CNN on Wednesday, Harris publicly embraced the Democratic Party’s go-to attack for Republican presidential candidates that goes back decades, telling CNN’s Anderson Cooper that she, in fact, believes that Trump is a fascist.