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”

a) conservative vocabulary is just repeating what others say

b) people call them fascist, therefore they will call others fascist back

c) they will call the next Democratic admin fascists (assuming there’s still elections) which would let you target conservatives for being antifa terrorists

I know it’s all BS and unlikely to work that way but hey

China is when Chinese people do things Americans have been doing.

NSA, Equation Group, black rooms, PRISM, Palantir… that’s bad stuff but it’s sorta in the background. Even the national surveillance startup tracking license plates and soon people… not that interesting.

But Chinese that stuff? It’s the only way you can show many Americans just how fucked these policies / institutions are.

Nazis went after trans people, burned trans related books.

Nazis are going after trans people, burning trans related books.