Republicans, Facing Midterm Peril, Try to Brand Democrats as Communists
Trump and GOP leaders are using communist labels to cast Democrats as radical, while centrist Democrats push back and say they are capitalist, not socialist.
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cedarnews.netAccording to President Trump, Americans have no other choice in the midterm elections in November: a vote for the Republicans is the only way to prevent a communist party from taking over the country. "They call themselves socialists, but actually they are communists," says Trump about the Democratic Party. It is a framing that the Republicans have been using remarkably often lately. Trump dropped the word communism or communists no fewer than …
One by one, the speeches at Donald Trump's mid-term Republican convention in Dallas this week carried some echoes of the Cold War era. Congressman Mike Johnson said that next year, the communists will be in Congress, and that is frightening. Congressman Steve Scalise, number two of the party in the House, said that there was a Bolshevik revolution in the Democratic Party. And at the top of the Red Fear, Trump resorted once again to unfounded all…
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