As Vice President Kamala Harris struggles to overtake Donald Trump in the last lap of the 2024 presidential race, the news media's anti-Trump heckling is reaching fever pitch. The Los Angeles Times asks, "Is Trump America's Hitler?", noting that the Fuhrer had better "relationships with women." The Atlantic magazine argues that Trump is worse than Hitler. The GOP nominee's rhetorical provocations rival supervillains Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and Mao combined. Even the notorious segregationist, Alabama governor George Wallace, who declared “segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever," is an alleged model of gentlemanly discourse compared to the MAGA maniac of Mar A Lago.

All of which makes the sudden embrace of Trump by Democrats in tight races a might awkward. Last week, Democratic senator Bob Casey released an ad reassuring Pennsylvania voters that he "bucked Biden to protect fracking and he sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China." Likewise, Wisconsin Democrat, Senator Tammy Baldwin is alerting voters that she "got President Trump to sign her Made in America bill." Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin, who is vying for a promotion from Michigan voters to the US Senate, and embattled Ohio senator Sherrod Brown, who has described Trump as "unhinged" and a threat to national security, have also run ads boasting that Trump signed bills they authored. In the face of potential defeat, one Democrat's "Orange Hitler" is another Democrat's "Hail Mary."