Trump supporters in PA leave Dems horrified: ‘Like Hitler, but I voted for the man’

Democrats have recoiled on social media Monday after sharing a quote from an article with The Philadelphia Inquirer that left them unnerved.
“This is the most disturbing thing you’ll read today,” Democratic strategist Keith Edwards posted to X along with a screenshot of the story.
The story’s headline is “Democrats kept calling Trump a fascist, but these Pennsylvania voters thought he could help them pay the bills” and the line that jumped out to some on social media was the quote from a 45-year-old former construction worker from Scranton.
The man said “he didn’t love the dictatorial aspect of Trump’s personality, but thought it could help keep the country out of wars and maybe bring peace to some other conflicts, including in Ukraine,” the Inquirer reported, adding his quote: “He’s good and bad. People say he’s a dictator. I believe that. I consider him like Hitler. … But I voted for the man.”
Kamala Harris said last month that she believed Donald Trump “is a fascist” after his longest-serving chief of staff said the former president praised Adolf Hitler while in office and put personal loyalty above the Constitution.
Harris seized on comments by former chief of staff John Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general, about his former boss in interviews with The New York Times and The Atlantic, warning that the Republican nominee meets the definition of a fascist and that Trump, while in office, suggested that the Nazi leader “did some good things.”
Speaking at a CNN town hall late in the campaign, Harris said they offer a window into who the former president “really is” and the kind of commander in chief he would be.
Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States last week in a decisive victory for the 45th president.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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