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Posted on 05/03/2025 12:25:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
For years, President Donald Trump blamed “communists” for his legal and political troubles. Now, the second Trump administration is deploying that same historically loaded label to cast his opponents — from judges to educators — as threats to American identity, culture and values.
Why? Trump himself explained the strategy last year when he described how he planned to defeat his Democratic opponent, then-Vice President Kamala Harris, in the White House election.
“All we have to do is define our opponent as being a communist or a socialist or somebody who is going to destroy our country,” he told reporters at his New Jersey golf club in August.
Trump did just that — branding Harris “comrade Kamala” — and he won in November. With the assent of more than 77 million Americans who cast ballots — 49.9% of the vote — Trump is carrying that strategy into his second term.
What he’s talking about is not actually ‘communism’In 2025, communism wields big influence in countries such as China, Vietnam, North Korea and Cuba. But not the United States.
“The core of communism is the belief that governments can do better than markets in providing goods and services. There are very, very few people in the West who seriously believe that,” said Raymond Robertson of the Texas A&M University Bush School of Government & Public Service. “Unless they are arguing that the government should run U.S. Steel and Tesla, they are simply not communists.”
The word “communist,” on the other hand, can carry great emotional power as a rhetorical tool, even now. It’s all the more potent as a pejorative — though frequently inaccurate, even dangerous — amid the contemporary flash of social...
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That's what they always say. Communism hasn't actually been tried yet, according to them, and they know how to do it correctly.
PS - Joe McCarthy was right.
https://www.ini-world-report.org/2018/04/20/the-vindication-of-sen-joe-mccarthy/
Perhaps the AP can explain the diffence between commnism and socialism for the world.
as threats to American identity, culture and values.
The left is definitely that. ACTUALLY Communist in Marxian terms? No. Communist in fascist, tyrannical, repressive and totalitarian terms? A resounding “Hell YES!”
Good for Trump.
F the communists and they are welcome to defend their ideology. But they are totally dishonest and will never admit their true feelings or agenda.
They only survive by lies, cheating, theft and deception.....and their reliance on the Dumbed Down idiots they’ve created.
LOL! As if “nazi” is not a historically loaded term! Suck it, Ape Pee!
ACTUALLY Communist in Marxian * terms?
*, economic
Trump must be directly over the target.
Communism are simply the most “principled” form of Socialism, global is scope, and the most “pure” form.
It is true, communism has never actually been put into practice, but it has had many trial runs, which all seem to fall into two outcomes, either as perpetual anarchy and chaos, or some form of a military command-and-control regime, neither one of which fits in any conceivable way to the classic definition of “democracy”.
Socialism in any form promises the end to want, conflict and onerous responsibilities, but it has NEVER delivered on any of these vague objectives.
“The core of communism is the belief that governments can do better than markets in providing goods and services. There are very, very few people in the West who seriously believe that,” said Raymond Robertson of the Texas A&M University Bush School of Government & Public Service. “Unless they are arguing that the government should run U.S. Steel and Tesla, they are simply not communists.”
What part of the west does this idiot live in? There are 10s of millions of indoctrinated psychos who believe that government is the answer to everything. This moron should bot be educating anyone.
Academics will define “communism” in a way so that it is impossible to point to any “real world” example. That way, academics can always say that communism is great — so long as it is done properly. Which just hasn’t happened yet. So let’s give it a chance.
Academics will also define “fascism” in a way so that America is a pure fascist state. George Washington? Bill of Rights? Can’t get more fascist than that!! Burn it all down and replace it with a communist utopia!
All I can say is, yep. The reason it mostly failed in the US is that communist revolutions are built on class warfare. Except in the US the middle class was too comfortable. So here they tried race warfare. Problem was, the lower class outnumbered the upper class in Russia, et al. But blacks were in a definite minority in the US. They didn’t stand a chance.
But the middle class is evaporating in the western world. especially places like NYC and California. So they’re at it again.
Words have power—as Marx and Orwell knew.
Eggzackly.
“Raymond Robertson of the Texas A&M University Bush School of Government & Public Service. “Unless they are arguing that the government should run U.S. Steel and Tesla, they are simply not communists.”
This is the same old sophistry. With the neocons, communism long ago left behind the old claptrap about factories and moved into the CULTURAL communism of Gramsci. They learned well, that a middle class in an industrial power would never act like serfs and peasants, and rise up. So they went into the schools, families, churches and now our military...
Time for a reminder of a classic...
From “None dare call it conspiracy”.
“Immediately a whole new situation has developed. Rather than the near unanimity previously found, we now have an incredible diversity of ideas. There are a multitude of opinions on what Communism is. Some will say: “Oh, yes, Communism. Well, that’s a tyrannical brand of socialism.” Others will maintain “Communism as it was originally intended by Karl Marx was a good idea. But it has never been practiced and the Russians have loused it up.” A more erudite type might proclaim: “Communism is simply a rebirth of Russian imperialism.”
If per chance one of the men you ask to define Communism happened to be a political science professor from the local college, he might well reply: “You can’t ask ‘what is Communism?’ That is a totally simplistic question about an extremely complex situation. Communism today, quite unlike the view held by the right wing extremists in America, is not an international monolithic movement. Rather, it is a polycentric, fragmented, nationalistic movement deriving its character through the charismas of its various national leaders. While, of course, there is the welding of Hegelian dialectics with Feuerbachian materialism held in common by the Communist parties generally, it is a monumental oversimplification to ask ‘what is Communism?’ Instead you should ask: “What is the Communism of Mao Tse-tung? What is the Communism of the late Ho Chi Minh, or Fidel Castro or Marshal Tito?”
If you think we are being facetious here, you haven’t talked to a political science professor lately. For the above is the prevailing view on our campuses, not to mention in our State Department.
Whether you agree or disagree with any of these definitions, or, as may well be the case, you have one of your own, one thing is undeniable. No appreciable segment of the anti-Communist American public can agree on just what it is that they are against. Isn’t that frightening? Here we have something that almost everybody agrees is bad, but we cannot agree on just what it is we are against.
How would this work in a football game, for example? Can you imagine how effective the defense of a football team would be if the front four could not agree with the linebackers who could not agree with the corner backs who could not agree with the safety men who could not agree with the assistant coaches who could not agree with the head coach as to what kind of defense they should put up against the offense being presented? The obvious result would be chaos. You could take a sand lot team and successfully pit them against the Green Bay Packers if the Packers couldn’t agree on what it is they are opposing. That is academic. The first principle in any encounter, whether it be football or war (hot or cold), is: Know your enemy. The American people do not know their enemy. Consequently, it is not strange at all that for three decades we have been watching one country of the world after another fall behind the Communist curtain.
In keeping with the fact that almost everybody seems to have his own definition of Communism, we are going to give you ours, and then we will attempt to prove to you that it is the only valid one.
Communism: AN INTERNATIONAL, CONSPIRATORIAL DRIVE FOR POWER ON THE PART OF MEN IN HIGH PLACES WILLING TO USE ANY MEANS TO BRING ABOUT THEIR DESIRED AIM—GLOBAL CONQUEST.
You will notice that we did not mention Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, bourgeois, proletariat or dialectical materialism. We said nothing of the pseudo-economics or political philosophy of the Communists. These are the TECHNIQUES of Communism and should not be confused with the Communist conspiracy itself.”
He was being polite.
LOL! Democrats have been calling Trump and his supporters “Nazis” for the past several years. Now the AP is upset because Trump is calling the communists “communists”?
If the jackboot fits.....
Oh, I think Trump has offended some commies at AP. Or maybe they don’t consider the millions who died because of communism “baggage.” Do they think of them as counter-revolutionaries who deserved to die?
They are.
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