Posted on 07/19/2026 9:48:08 AM PDT by Angelino97
President Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech on July 3 included these noteworthy lines:
"There 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. These are not mere political disagreements like differences over taxes or regulations. Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty.
"It is the greatest threat to our country, including World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or even 9/11. Uh, we’re not gonna let this happen to us. Believe me, we’re not letting it happen. Because communism is the enemy of free people everywhere, everywhere in the world. Never works. It’s the enemy of the Constitution."
President Trump is entirely correct that the U.S., together with most of the Western world, faces “the greatest threat to our country,” indeed possibly a greater threat than we ever faced before. I applaud the president’s resolve not “to let this happen to us,” and to do what is necessary to keep a pernicious enemy from conquering this country.
But I would submit that enemy we should be chiefly targeting has little to do with Marxism, which never had the resounding appeal in America that, unfortunately, our newer adversary appears to enjoy. We are fighting with our backs to the wall against woke ideology and its zealots in, among other places, the permanent state, corporate capitalism, the culture industry, and the mass media.
It is therefore ridiculous to pretend we’re only dealing with a passing cultural fad or the effects of being “overly concerned” with marginalized minorities. Wokeness is not dead! Our enemy is on the march and combatting, among other targets, white men, Christians, advocates of traditional gender roles, and those who resist their country being overrun by Third World illegals.
The legions that back the woke ideologues include public administrators, entertainment celebrities, and corporate executives who impose DEI indoctrination even after it has been declared illegal. Neither should we forget the vast majority of Democratic voters, NGOs, and almost all “educators.” These ideologues have tens of millions of followers, unlike American Communists, who could only scare up about 80,000 votes in their best showing in a presidential race in 1936.
To call these woke nutjobs Marxists is to insult an older and, frankly, saner enemy. Nowhere did Communist parties favor open borders, encourage sexual perversity, try to fill cities with encampments of druggies and derelicts, or make war on gender identities.
Communist parties in Eastern Europe still favor banning gay marriage and attribute the popularity of LGBTQ ideas and anti-white racism to Western capitalist decadence. One needn’t like these long-time enemies (who murdered millions of people) to notice they do not constitute the bulk of our adversaries in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis.
The entire old left, including Communists, would have laughed at proposals from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) to give out the free stuff. I can’t even imagine how an orthodox Marxist or Communist would process such DSA conceits as amnesty for all illegals and stronger government support for transgender rights. These are hardly the positions real Communists have advocated, let alone tried to put into practice.
The affluent voters in Manhattan who backed Mamdani in his mayoral race may now have buyer’s remorse. But this woke Muslim mayor, who calls himself a “social democrat,” has not called for such standard socialist positions as seizing the heights of the economy or taking over the means of production.
Although the DSA may, at some future point, try to implement such measures, so far, they seem to be mostly a woke party trying to get noticed. Trying to buy off voters, as Mamdani does, with giveaway programs and then trying to meet the costs of this political extravagance by raising taxes on the rich may be economically dumb. But it’s what politicians do in all decadent democracies. It was not the kind of government that existed in Eastern Europe under Soviet control.
If we’re looking for a model of what all revolutionary leftist governments do, let’s not revive Cold War rhetoric, however much that may please Boomer Republicans.
To understand our real enemy, we would do better to learn from the counterrevolutionaries of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, who discerned the constant features of all revolutionary movements.
Wokeness is, in fact, the latest incarnation of the revolutionary mind across the ages, not the return of a by-now outdated form of it in Marxism, which should attract our attention. All revolutionaries have one project in common, which Edmund Burke expressed insightfully in Reflections on the Revolution in France:
"The decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.
"On this scheme of things, a king is but a man; a queen is but a woman; a woman is but an animal; and an animal not of the highest order. All homage paid to the sex in general as such, and without distinct views, is to be regarded as romance and folly.
"On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom as it is destitute of all taste and elegance, laws are to be supported only by their own terrors, and by the concern which each individual may find in them from his own private speculations. In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows..."
Burke ends his comment about the demolition work of all social revolutionaries with a stern warning. We should keep it in mind as we observe the woke left and other moral and cultural subversives:
"Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners, and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles; I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion."
Even more than the Communists of the past, the woke left of today is the enemy of all human refinement and civilization.
There is no difference between being a communist and being a useful idiot for communists
The enemy is Satan who walks to and fro seeking who he may devour.
Socialism, communism, and woke-ism are just some of the tools Satan uses to destroy everything in his path.
Correctly, they are unwitting fascists.
The woke left are the zealous brownshirts of full-blown communism.
The difference between an authoritarian Socialist and a Communist is simply product labeling.
How true.
I would posit that the woke and the socialist/communistis are two different entities, both of which are our enemies, and are semi-united in tearing us down.
DSA/CPUSA are gaining strength and seem to be starting to openly take over the Dem party.
Not so much fascists (or socialists, or Communists) as anti-white racists. They'd be happy with corporate capitalism if the boardrooms had no straight whites, and every Hollywood film was cast 100% people of color. (And if you must have whites, make them weak trannies, because they're degrading to whites.)
I view them as being closer to Mao’s red guards
Nope. Once those casts and boards are POC they'll want them gay or trans.
They'll never be happy. They don't know why.
The College Democrats are only allowing the Free Palestine into their convention. No matter if you have a ticket.
You are spot on.
About 90 BC, two factions in the Nation of Israel were fighting. IIRC, Titus, a Roman General, sent emissaries to leaders of both factions saying, to the effect, “I support you in your cause and wish you the best. I will be there to help you, if you need me, after you win.” After the two factions had beat each other to a shadow of their former selves, Titus moved in with his fresh army and defeated the weakened Israelite army.
Thus Israel became a Roman colony.
Perhaps, such a sequence will be the fate of America.
A democracy/republic can only exist with a population that is highly ethical and moral. Our current secular society is incapable of undoing the darkness in the hearts of many Americans.
It is said:
There is one distinction between a liberal and a Communist.
A leftist/liberal is a Lazy Communist.
A Communist is a leftist/liberal in a hurry.
I understand his points, but an enemy has to have a name, and “woke leftists” is not a name to rally against. They do share many traits of communists, including seizing the means of production ( though they are too foolish to realize that their methods of taxing and excessive regulation, merely ensure that the large corporations maintain their monopolies). And communists are anti- Christian so there is that. They also have an anarchist bent to them with the destruction of moral laws which have long defined Christendom.
My proposal would be to combine these int “AnarCommunists” or “Communo-anarchists”. A good description of an ideology truly worth despising.
“Marx would have diagnosed the roots of Stalinism as being in the social order of the class society in the Soviet Union which Stalin had helped to create, that of bureaucratic state capitalism.”
Repeat: bureaucratic state capitalism. From Alasdair MacIntyre, Marxism and Christianity.
That statement is absolute bull crap!
Communism uses whatever means to tear down civil society and replace it with communist society. So, if attacking marriage, the courts, the church, our national borders or the sovereignty of the nation is what it takes to destroy the current establishment, they’ll do it.
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