Trump attacks the enemy within

Dr. Donald Trump’s strategy to maintain his grip on American democracy evokes a centuries-old fear of communism, writes Jeff McMullen.

HERE COMES the Red Scare in America…again!

President Trump at the July 4 Independence Day celebration marking the 250th birthday of the United States of America showed his hand:

“Communism is mortal Threat to American freedom. It is the greatest threat to our country, including World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, and even 9/11. We won’t let this happen to us. Believe me, we do not allow this. Because communism is the enemy of free people.”

Facing a strategic embarrassment abroad and declining popularity at home, Republicans’ fear of losing control of the House of Representatives, and some at stake in the Senate, the man who hates losing needs someone to blame.

Who better than the “communists” who Donald Trump claims are taking over the Democratic Party and threatening the American way of life?

Recent primary victories for candidates backed by New York’s democratic socialist mayor, Zohran MamdaniThey highlighted debate and anxiety within the ranks of the Democratic Party about the appeal of socialism to young Americans and others who dislike mainstream politics.

Mamdani, of Indian origin and born in Uganda, became New York’s first Muslim mayor. She ran last December as the candidate of the Democratic Party and the Working Families Party and as a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Mamdani’s impassioned speech about change and new politics in America helped other candidates run as Democratic Socialists. Such progressives won primaries in New York, Colorado, Kentucky, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

This left-wing political success gave Trump his 2026 target in a volatile political environment.

Far-left Democrats, whom Trump calls communists, will be under constant fire ahead of the midterm elections in November.

Stand by for the White House team led by the Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Millerpart of the estimated US$400 million (AU$576 million) MAGA Inc. Super PAC Creating a new Red Scare by deploying a barrage of AI-generated attack ads and social media.

The 250th anniversary of the adoption of the law is celebrated across the country Declaration of Independence The attack by the Continental Congress created an opportunity for the 47th President of the United States to assert his extraordinary power and target his enemies at home.

On the eve of July 4, Trump flew to South Dakota on his own plane. new Air Force OneThe security equipment, gifted by the Qatari royal family, cost American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars to replace and retool. President viewed typical arrogance, posing Melania Trump In front of the Mount Rushmore monument.

Trump likes to share digital mockups your face next to huge mountain carvings george washington, thomas jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt And Abraham Lincoln.

we know from us Regime Change, New book prepared by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman And Jonathan SwanThis President enjoys boasting that he has more power than anyone in history. This includes healing some of the world’s most feared and violent leaders. Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, stalin, Mao And Hitler.

According to Haberman and Swan, Trump told them:

‘These leaders “maintained their power through fear… Who would do such a thing? Right?”‘

Before the fireworks began at the Mount Rushmore monument last weekend, Trump fired an extraordinary salvo of his own in connection with the intense communist threat. “The new arrivals to our country… are completely against our way of life.”.

Trump continued:

“We are determined and vow to hear on behalf of all that the citizens of the United States will quickly defeat communism… We will quickly drive them away and continue to build our country bigger, better, stronger than ever before. America will never be a communist country!”

Watch out for redheads! Watch out for redheads!

The most outrageous, eye-catching statements by some members of the Democratic Socialist Alliance of America are aimed at young people fed up with mainstream politicians. But they are a gift for Trump.

of new york Darializa Avila Chevalierwho was nominated as a Democratic candidate to be elected to the House of Representatives, went overboard in his social media posts and called out the former President. Joe Biden “A”rapist” and hits the former Vice President with: “Fuck Kamala Harris”.

Miss Chevalier in the past praised communismHe called for the seizure of American lands and means of production. He seems to have forgotten the terrible famines triggered by the policies of Stalin and Mao.

This is cannon fodder for an administration that will stop at nothing to create a Red Scare while also trying to cash in on Trump’s most popular political ploy by blaming all the country’s major problems on anti-American types and unwanted immigrants.

Despite the US Supreme Court decision decision In opposition to President Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship, a key architect of the Administration’s harsh deportation strategy. Stephen MillerSays the White House will do it push congress to introduce new legislation and “America’s the doors are closed “It is entirely aimed at refugees.”.

The next four months will determine whether widespread American discontent with high fuel, food and rent costs, as well as Trump’s debacle in Iran, can be minimized by all this angry distraction and repeated performance of lying, fidgeting and knitting.

Trump really fears losing the House of Representatives in November because it would not only weaken his power at home and abroad. This could subject him and his friends to an investigation into what happened. Democrats’ claim It is systemic corruption and an undermining of the role of Congress and important independent institutions.

Trump said I came back in January:

“You’ve got to win the midterms, because if we don’t win the midterms, it’s going to happen, I mean, they’re going to find a reason to impeach me.”

Some Americans I consulted are skeptical that mask security measures may be implemented following Trump’s attempts to restrict voting on several fronts. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents in voting booths to attack “newcomers” who might vote for Democrats.

There are concerns that the new Red Scare campaign will turn into a crackdown on basic human rights as it has in the past.

America’s first Red Scare after World War I was a state of panic triggered by fear that the country’s labor movement would follow the socialist revolutions in Germany and Russia.

The second Red Scare after World War II came from a disturbing reality. During the height of the Cold War, several hundred American communists, including some high-ranking government officials and technicians working on the atomic bomb, were spying for the Soviet Union.

late Senator Daniel Patrick MoynihanA brilliant mind and a keen historian, he told me in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in the 1970s: great stupidity from anti-communists McCarthy This was the period when he neglected necessary counter-espionage and overreacted in suppressing civil liberties.

There is a tragic parallel here. While President Donald Trump calls out the new Red Scare as America’s enemy, he is also gaining a reputation as a full-blown power-mad authoritarian.

It has divided the American nation like never before since the race riots of the 1960s and the violent struggles of the Civil Rights era. Congress was sidelined and the Supreme Court, filled with Republican appointees, made this President immune from prosecution while he was performing his official duties.

Much of the world sees that the real fear in America is the uncertainty of what Trump might do in the remaining two and a half years of his presidency.

Check out the damage so far:

Trump’s tariffs;
His purpose in declaring war on Iran;
the decapitation of the Venezuelan government;
closeness with the Russian President and the stubborn undermining of Ukraine’s resistance to Putin’s invasion; And
Designs in Greenland, the Panama Canal, Cuba and even Canada.

This and more has greatly weakened confidence in US global leadership.

But that won’t deter Donald Trump. His agenda is now focused on taking revenge on and humiliating his political rivals. He believes he will be strong on or off duty.

Trump wants to have an important place not only in the last 250 years, but also in world history.

That’s exactly what the 47th President of the United States wants 47 new Maple trees It was erected in his honor in Lafayette Square, across from the White House.

Designs for a grand Washington arch and a brutalist ballroom are expressions of a distinctive Gilded Age, when Donald J Trump could pose with a king-sized megaphone, drown out criticism and hail himself as one of the greatest men of all time.

From where? He’s the President of America!

Embers boasted:

“America, with its 250 years of history, is the oldest republic in the world. We are the freest people in the world. We have the most just and enduring Constitution in the world. We are the strongest and most powerful country in the world. And by the grace of God, the United States of America is the most successful, most successful, most exceptional nation that has ever existed in human history, and it is wonderful to be your President.”

Dr Jeff McMullen AM is a journalist, author, filmmaker and winner of the United Nations Media Peace Prize, including on Four Corners and 60 Minutes.

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