It seems we’re on the verge of another Red Scare in the United States, so long as it’s a winning political message for Republicans.

President Donald Trump has been going on the offensive against what he sees as the radical reimagining of the Democratic Party by speaking about communism in several recent appearances.

“They’re animals,” Trump said on June 26 at the Faith & Freedom Coalition. “We have to stop this horrible threat of cancer that’s permeating our country called communism.”

The president went on to call communists “godless” in a room full of Christian conservatives.

He continued these attacks at a June 29 White House news conference, where he insisted that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) who ran on the Democratic Party ticket in 2025, was not a democratic socialist at all, but a communist.

“I think it’s the biggest threat to our nation there is, maybe since our founding,” Trump said. “That includes World War I, World War II, September 11th, it includes the Pearl Harbor attack.”

I can’t believe that we’re even having this........

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