Opinion | Why Donald Trump Says His Enemies Are ‘Communists’
It’s no mistake the former president is reviving this tactic in the wake of his federal indictment.www.politico.com
Whatever his motivations, Trump’s kind of red baiting has a long lineage. It is right out of the playbook of authoritarians and tyrants from the early 20th century. It was instrumental in the rise of fascist leaders in mid-century Germany and Italy.
Like them, today’s strongmen and would-be strongmen like the former president need powerful “us” versus “them” narratives, and communism is a tried and true boogeyman. It works, as columnist John P. Baird has argued, “to narrow the spectrum of what it is possible to achieve politically. It has historically been used against all kinds of change agents.”
Poor child, anyone with half a brain know communist/marxist have been eroding American society since the late 1960s. Their corruption of the media, education system and the entertainment industry is pretty much complete. And now they are making inroads into government at all levels. Only a modern marxist would try to deny this fact. The commies said they were going to do it, they did, and we let them get away with it.
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