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Republicans Revive Red Scare Rhetoric to Fight DSA Gains Before Midterms
Former President Trump employed anti-communist rhetoric at a Michigan rally, linking Democrats to communism to mobilize voters, citing the rise of 163 Democratic Socialist candidates.
President Donald Trump and Republican leaders have spent more than a month warning voters that communism is overtaking the Democratic Party, deploying Cold War-era language to frame the November midterm elections as a fight for the country’s survival. The rhetoric is aimed squarely at the Democratic Socialists of America, a progressive organization whose endorsed candidates have won dozens of Democratic primaries at the local, state and federal …