{"id":3932,"date":"2026-07-11T16:09:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2026-07-11T16:09:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:09:53","slug":"trumps-desperate-to-distract-america-with-communist-fear-mongering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=3932","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s desperate to distract America with communist fear mongering"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump is a desperate man. With the midterms on the horizon and his approval ratings under water, he doesn\u2019t want to talk about affordability. Nor does he want to talk about his war with Iran. And he certainly doesn\u2019t want to talk about Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

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What does he want to talk about? Communists.<\/p>\n

Over the last two weeks, Trump has ratcheted up his overheated rhetoric in response to democratic socialists\u2019 victories in primary elections in Colorado, New York, Washington, DC, and elsewhere.During a speech to Christian conservatives at a Faith and Freedom Coalition convention in Washington on June 26, he called democratic socialists \u201canimals\u201d and said, \u201cWe have to stop this horrible threat of cancer that\u2019s permeating our country called communism.\u201d He went on to say that the \u201cgodless\u201d communists in the Democratic Party pose a particular risk for Christians. \u201cThey will close your churches in this country,\u201d he warned. \u201cThey will kill your people. And that\u2019s what they\u2019re about.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not as if Trump and his fellow Republicans haven\u2019t hurled the communist epithet before, but over the past six months they have upped the ante.<\/p>\n

Heading into the 250th birthday celebration on the National Mall, Trump continued his tirade. Speaking at Mount Rushmore on July 3, he not only besmirched Democrats, but immigrants as well. \u201cThere is now a resurgence of the communist menace in our land, including from newcomers to our country who embrace ideas totally opposed to our way of life and our great success,\u201d he said. \u201c…You can be a communist or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both.\u201d He made no secret that he is trying to salvage Republican candidates\u2019 chances in November. \u201cAmerica will never be a communist country,\u201d he said. \u201cWe can only lose the midterms if we allow ourselves to lose the midterms if we are foolish, stupid, and unwise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump was only slightly more restrained on July 4 at the National Mall. After introducing a handful of World War II veterans and lauding them for their heroism, Trump ahistorically : \u201cOur warriors did not fight communism on battlefields across the world, only to have that menace rear its ugly head right back here in America. We\u2019re not going to let it happen.\u201d (In fact, American troops, along with troops from Great Britain and communist Soviet Union, defeated fascism<\/em> in World War II.)<\/p>\n

The GOP\u2019s Red-Baiting Tradition<\/h4>\n

It\u2019s not as if Trump and his fellow Republicans haven\u2019t hurled the communist epithet before, but over the past six months they have upped the ante. According to a recent Washington Post analysis of statements, social media posts, and podcasts, from January to June, they applied the word \u201ccommunist\u201d or \u201ccommunism\u201d to Democrats an average of 626 times per week, 43% more than during the same time frame in 2025.<\/p>\n

Right-wing pundits have entered the fray, too. Megan McArdle, a self-described \u201cright-leaning libertarian\u201d columnist at The Washington Post, recently wrote that democratic socialist victories represent \u201ca heady moment for the left, because socialism\u2019s tainted brand has recovered from the vivid failures of the Soviet Union.\u201d<\/p>\n

Likewise, historian Arthur Herman, writing for Fox News, disingenuously equated democratic socialists\u2019 policy agenda with that of the Soviet Union in a July 3 column. \u201cIn June, Marxist radicals calling themselves democratic socialists swept the New York City primaries…\u201d he wrote. \u201c…Communist-style socialism has brought poverty, mass starvation, and subsistence misery to tens of millions worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such attacks are nothing new. Republicans denounced Franklin Roosevelt\u2019s New Deal as \u201csocialism\u201d and even \u201ccommunism.\u201d In 1961, then General Electric spokesman Ronald Reagan warned that government health insurance would lead to socialism. Over the following decades, however, Republicans largely abandoned that mantra in favor of attacks on \u201cbig government\u201d and the welfare state.<\/p>\n

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Trump is a throwback to an earlier time. In his 2020 State of the Union address, Trump attacked socialism, claiming it \u201cdestroys nations.\u201d Like Reagan before him, he specifically denounced a \u201cMedicare for All\u201d proposal endorsed by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and 130 other members of Congress at the time, calling it a \u201csocialist takeover of our healthcare system.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the last election, Trump often called Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris a \u201cMarxist,\u201d tying her to her father\u2019s economic perspective on markets and inequality. More recently, he labeled New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, a \u201ccommunist,\u201d and dubbed Janeese Lewis George, a democratic socialist who won last month\u2019s Washington, DC, Democratic mayoral primary, a \u201cCommunist adherent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democratic socialists in the Democratic Party are not communists. If they are a member of any organization, it likely would be the Democratic Socialists of America, which does not function as a party. Communist organizations still exist in the United States, but they are politically marginal and have no representation in Congress or in any state legislature.<\/p>\n

Americans Support Democratic Socialist Policies<\/h4>\n

Likewise, democratic socialism is not synonymous with Soviet communism, which fell apart 35 years ago. The countries that democratic socialists in America hold up as models can be found in Western Europe. They are multiparty democracies with market economies, strong unions, and robust social safety programs that include universal healthcare. Their economic models are nothing like the one-party command economy of the Soviet Union and, as I pointed out in detail in a December 2025 essay, they do a much better job of ensuring their citizens live long, healthy, and prosperous lives than the United States does.<\/p>\n

While only about 17% of Americans a favorable view of democratic socialist politicians, their policies are quite popular. For example:<\/p>\n