Red scare revived as Trump leads push to attack Democrats as ‘communists’ | Donald Trump
Moments after Donald Trump rang the ceremonial opening bell on Monday, kicking off the trading day from the Oval Office 232 miles north of Wall Street, U.S. senator Ted Cruz hailed the president’s new savings accounts as his administration’s “New Deal.”
“But instead of government taking care of everyone, Trump’s calculations are about making every child and every American a capitalist,” the Republican senator said.
After Democratic socialists and their close progressive allies in New York and elsewhere won the primaries, Trump and his Republican allies are leading a broad push to brand Democrats as communists. John Birch Society A language that gets dusty from disuse.
While Trump often conflates democratic socialism with communism—a well-worn Republican tactic aimed at weaponizing voters’ fear of Marxism against liberal policies—he has made the charge increasingly specific and clear.
Speaking at Mount Rushmore on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Trump said, “Communism is the opposite of life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness. It is death, tyranny and the pursuit of evil.” “Godless communist morality says that anything that will give rise to inhuman visions is justified… They don’t want goodness. They don’t love God and they don’t want God. They don’t like religion, they don’t want religion and they won’t have it but we won’t let them win.”
Before Monday’s incident, no president had ever rang the bell from the White House; Perhaps this is because no president has wanted to link state power so closely with financial markets.
But as Trump stepped up his attacks against communism, the self-styled businessman president oversaw the most significant expansion of government control over the private sector since the beginning of the Cold War, if not before.
The United States government owns a 9.9% stake in Intel Corporation and is the single largest shareholder of this established chipmaker. Trump diverted money from the Chips Act to save the firm. The government has permission to buy another 5% of the private company.
This is just one of dozens of government investments that have been nationalized since the beginning of Trump’s second term. The US holds a 15% stake in MP Materials: the Department of Defense is the rare earth producer’s largest shareholder. The Department of Energy has a 5% interest in Lithium Americas and a 5% economic interest in the Thacker Pass joint venture with GM.
Trump authorized the acquisition of U.S. Steel by a Japanese firm only with a “golden share” requirement, which gives the government veto power over some industrial decisions the steelmaker makes on national security grounds. OpenAI is in talks with management to transfer 5% of its equity capital to the government.
The president has used bludgeoning tariffs that protect or penalize industries and specific private firms based on White House policy or his own personal whims. Nvidia and AMD received export licenses for their valuable AI chips only after agreeing to pay the US government 15% of Chinese chip revenues.
However, Trump’s anti-communist language also resonated in the right-wing media environment.
‘The party did this to itself’ in question Fox News host Jesse Watters of the Democratic Party. “They made such a bad mistake that once they had power they couldn’t do anything and had to play footsie with the communists to strengthen their base. They’re weak. Brand is in the bathroom. And they opened the door a crack and danger came in. These are cold-blooded revolutionaries who want to bury America.”
New York mayor Zohran Mamdani also criticized wealth inequality and capitalism in his speech before Independence Day. God took control of it.
“The barbarians are at the door,” U.S. House speaker Mike Johnson said on Fox News Sunday, describing democratic socialism as “a serious threat to our entire system of government.”
“This is what you expect from communists,” former White House adviser Matt Mowers told NewsMax. “So he chose the day before the 250th celebration of our independence to launch this kind of divisive speech,” Mowers said. “He is trying to divide people at a time when we should be united and celebrating.”
Mowers lost the 2022 Republican primary for Congress to former Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt; In a comment to Watters over the weekend, Leavitt attributed Gen Z’s complaints about the cost of living to “laziness” and “silver spoons ensuring everything is handed to them.”
Leavitt recanted his words.
“A lot of Republicans think this is a good development. They say it will make it easier to win the midterms because Americans don’t like socialists,” far-right commentator Barbara Boyd of Promethean Action said in a video that attempted to link Mamdani to Italian Marxists who have been dead for nearly a century.
He is among many conservatives in circulation. platform It was drafted by the Marxist Unity Caucus, a radical group within the Democratic Socialists of America that calls for the separation of the DSA from the Democratic Party and advocates the elimination of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. supreme court.
“So how do we beat this?” Boyd said. “Probably not, as the Republicans suggest, by constantly lashing out at how crazy these people are even though they are crazy… We need to make our people conscious of the culture that Donald Trump has recreated, the American culture.”
