The comparisons being drawn are far from complimentary.

In the "Harry Potter" universe, in a quest to achieve immortality, Voldemort created seven "horcruxes," which are objects or living things in which a person/wizard can hide fragments of his or her soul. In order to create a horcrux, you have to murder someone, and in order to kill someone with horcruxes, you have to destroy them all first.

In the 2016 presidential race, memo authors Warren Tompkins and Jon Lerner argue that the other Republican candidates in the race are essentially Trump's horcruxes.

With many of them still intact and running in the race, their reasoning goes, he is largely immortal. But when their candidacies are destroyed, he is weak. Jeb Bush's departure from the race, therefore, was a horcrux destroyed and a blow to the life of Trump's candidacy. (We'll choose not to explore the implication that should the candidates be actual horcruxes, Bush – as well as all the other Republican candidates – would have a part of Trump's soul living inside them.)

