Trump, Heading Into the Midterms’ Homestretch, Urges GOP To Focus on Dangers of Communist ‘Destruction’

President Trump is urging Republicans to “get tougher,” laying out the dangers of the communist agenda that several Democratic candidates are advocating. It’s a test of whether the case can be made or if it will smack too much of McCarthyism and the 1950s Red Scare.Thursday on Truth Social, Mr. Trump called it “great news for the Republican Party” that a Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, had won Michigan’s Democratic nomination. In a speech at Las Vegas’s Red Rocks Resort, the president called him “a communist loser” who had beaten a mere “socialist” despite having “heart full of hate.”Branding and insulting is Mr. Trump’s standard strategy. He also delved into policy. “Democrat communists,” he said, “claim to stand for working people” while hiding dark truths. “What they don’t say — and what Republicans should say — is that at the end of a year, you’ll have nothing but death, squalor, poverty.”Shouting, “Communist” doomed opponents in the era of the Wisconsin Republican, Senator Joseph McCarthy. Recognizing his excesses, Americans became more suspicious of the accuser than the accused. Yet President Eisenhower managed to make a key distinction, opposing communists and McCarthyism alike.Via Wikimedia CommonsMr. Trump, rather than depend on a label to do the heavy lifting, made a case against candidates who profess Marxist solutions themselves. “They want to skip socialism,” he said, and “go right down to the bottom of the barrel; that’s communism.”The president laid out “the official platform of the deranged communists,” including items from the Democratic Socialists of America and affiliated groups. “They have officially endorsed defunding the police” and military, he said, while “abolishing” prisons and ICE. “Legalizing heroin and fentanyl” rounded out the list.“Just last week,” Mr. Trump said, “Kamala Harris called for eliminating the Electoral College and she said she wants to pack the Supreme Court” with “Marxist judges.” He put the former vice president’s new total at 23, beyond the 13 she suggested last week.Mr. Trump said that the communist agenda includes record-high taxes, “full amnesty and voting rights” for 25 million to 50 million “illegal aliens.” He alleged that they’d also allow “American military service members to be arrested, given show trials, and imprisoned by foreign, globalist tribunals controlled by our enemies.”In the Democratic candidate for governor of Wisconsin, Francesca Hong, Mr. Trump said, “the communists even have a woman who said that the holiday of Thanksgiving should be immediately abolished and the police only exist to, quote, ‘uphold white supremacy.’”Ms. Hong later retreated, declaring Thanksgiving her “favorite holiday,” demonstrating the effectiveness of focusing on unpopular positions. “These people are dangerous and,” Mr. Trump said, “frankly, they’re lunatics, they’re crazy, and we can’t let them get into office.”Mr. Trump called communism “the greatest threat to our country in its history — including even World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, 9/11.” He boiled Marxism down to greed, flipping a charge leveled at capitalists like the ones who made Las Vegas bloom in the desert.Senate aspirant Abdul El-Sayed on August 5, 2026, at Detroit’s Majestic Theatre. AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson“I could be the greatest communist in history,” Mr. Trump said. “I tell everybody, ‘Here, would you like a free house? We’ll take one from your neighbor! Would you like free rent? We’ll take it from whoever.’” Elect communists, Mr. Trump said, and Americans will “have a life of hell, and that’s what happens every single time.”Venezuela was “such a rich country 20 years ago, 22 years ago,” Mr. Trump said by way of example. Electing far-left candidates brought a descent into “squalor … filth, crime, death, destruction, embarrassment.” He warned that this “is where the communists will take us — 100 percent.”Mr. Trump described witnessing the “bad results” of “communism throughout the world.” In “blue states run by Democrats,” he said, “everything is filthy, dirty all the time. The cities stink. They smell. The sidewalks are loaded with horrible stuff.”The concrete examples of the past that Mr. Trump shared contrast with the sunny visions painted of an imagined, state-run future. This opposition to professed communists, as Eisenhower demonstrated, isn’t McCarthyism. It’s giving voters a clear choice between the ideology that built America and the one that destroyed every nation it touched.

Trump, Heading Into the Midterms’ Homestretch, Urges GOP To Focus on Dangers of Communist ‘Destruction’

Trump, Heading Into the Midterms’ Homestretch, Urges GOP To Focus on Dangers of Communist ‘Destruction’

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