Red Scare 2.0: Trump Discovers Communism Just In Time For The Fourth of July
When Your Political Playbook Is Older Than Your Golf Cart
Well, we knew he would bring out the old highlights reel at some point...
Nothing says “Happy Birthday, America!” quite like a sweating, increasingly desperate lame duck president standing before a crowd of drenched and overheated supporters, pointing dramatically at the opposition party and screaming “COMMUNISTS!” Everybody loves an old antique politician who just discovered a 1952 Joseph McCarthy pamphlet in his golf bag and thought, “ Huh, Now THIS is fresh material.”
On Independence Day — that sacred holiday when Americans traditionally celebrate freedom (even with a very racist and decidedly not-free past), fireworks, and overcooked hot dogs — Donald Trump decided the most patriotic thing he could do was resurrect a political insult so stale it arrived wearing a Korean War-era trench coat. Democrats, he declared, are communists. Not that they are misguided. Not wrong. Not even garden-variety socialists. Full-blown, Marx-reading, Kremlin-loving communists and he meant it.
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