President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Friday to sound the alarm about what he sees as a communist takeover of the Democrat Party, and he did it with all the subtlety of a man who has never once whispered anything in his life.
As Conservative Brief reported, Trump kicked things off by noting that "The Radical Left Lunatics, often referred to as Dumocrats, have lost control of their Party." He added that "They are being led by loud and unattractive people who have totally lost their way." Say what you will about the man, he has never been accused of diplomatic restraint.
Trump went on to claim that the Democrats skipped right past socialism and went "all the way down to Communism," which is kind of like saying someone bypassed the speed limit and went straight to warp drive. He capped it off with the all caps declaration: "AMERICA WILL NEVER BE A COMMUNIST COUNTRY!" In another post, he described the Democrat Party as a "sinking ship."
The context here is the rise of so called "Democratic Socialists" who have been winning primary elections by knocking off Democrat incumbents this cycle. It is apparently keeping Republican leadership up at night.
House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared on Fox News Sunday and called the trend "a serious threat to our whole system of government." Johnson specifically pointed to New York's Zohran Mamdani as exhibit A, saying "There are many Mamdanis popping up, running for Congress around the country, and you better be very serious about this."
Johnson then gave what amounted to a political science lecture, explaining that "It's communism, socialism. Those are deviations of Marxism." He rattled off the wish list he attributes to these candidates: abolishing borders, abolishing prisons, defunding police, abolishing the U.S. Senate, packing the Supreme Court, and having the government take over all production. So basically the platform of a college sophomore who just discovered political theory and a bong on the same weekend.
"We were saying it was common sense versus crazy. Now it's common sense versus communism. And everybody needs to wake up," Johnson said.
Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance spent his Fourth of July weekend in New York City delivering an Independence Day speech that stood in sharp contrast to one given by Mamdani the day before. While Mamdani reportedly used the occasion, sitting behind George Washington's desk no less, to criticize the country, Vance took the more traditional route of celebrating America's 250th birthday.
"We celebrate 250 years of America facing the future without fear. We celebrate 250 years of proving what a free people can achieve by the providence of our almighty Creator," Vance said.
He also delivered the kind of sweeping patriotic imagery that speechwriters dream about: "We are a people formed by generations of self-governance and personal industry. We are formed by Frontier Assembly Hall and Congregation, by River Valley and Prairie and Factory Floor."
So there you have it. The Republican Party's message heading into the next election cycle is pretty clear: the other side has gone full communist, and the only thing standing between you and a Soviet reboot is voting the right way. Whether voters buy that framing or roll their eyes at it will probably depend on which cable news channel they left on in the background.
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