Communism is an evil philosophy. Communist regimes have killed hundreds of millions of people and made millions more live in a police state. But somehow, speaking ill of communism alarms the same journalists who constantly suggest democracy is in peril under President Donald Trump. Authoritarianism is bad—unless it's communist.

Trump denounced communism in a July 3 speech underneath Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. A three-person team at Associated Press—Steven Stone, Steve Peoples, and Michelle Price—penned a story headlined: "Trump hails U.S. exceptionalism before veering into darkly political speech to usher in America 250."

AP began by claiming Trump offered "soaring rhetoric about American exceptionalism before veering into a darkly political speech with warnings about a sinister threat of communism that evoked one of the country's ugliest chapters."

Trump said communism was a "mortal threat to American liberty." That's considered "darkly political," even if it's factual. American liberty and Soviet communism........

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