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President Donald Trump on Friday seized on the electoral success of several democratic socialist candidates to ramp up his attacks on the Democratic Party, claiming it was being taken over by “godless Communists” who pose an existential threat to the nation.

The heated rhetoric marked the latest bid by Trump to portray Democrats as political extremists ahead of November’s midterms — even though portrayals of even the party’s most liberal candidates as “communists” are far from reality.

“These are hard core, godless Communists,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post earlier on Friday, an accusation he repeated during remarks to a gathering of social conservatives. “This is the Greatest Threat to our Country since its Founding 250 years ago!”

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Jesus fucking christ, talk about a throwback. Now they are doing 1950's style Red Scare bullshit?

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 20 points 2 days ago

The Don's worldview never advanced past the 50s it seems

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)
[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its a distraction from Epstein and people screaming at him that he's a pedophile.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sideshow, or rather symptom of the wider problem of wealth disparity, a pay to play legal and political system, and the Victorian class system returning as Thomas Picketty predicted.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

Republicans are dumb. Of course it works. Ask the average Republican to define communist

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What is old will become new again.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

And there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment. At this time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock.

[–] manefraim@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

What was shall be; what is shall be no more....

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I remember he said that was peak America. So not shocked.