OUT: Media Propaganda That Democrats Aren't Socialists, Just Liberals
IN: New Media Propaganda That Democrats Aren't Communists, Just Socialists

Given that you lied for 70 years about Democrats' strong affinity for creeping socialism, you don't really have much credibility now that you admit they've been socialists all along but defenitely!!! aren't Slowly Boiling Frogs communists, do you?

Axios:
GOP reboots the Red Scare as young Democrats embrace socialism

"Red scare." LOL, we're just making it up, huh, Axios? Where do we get these crazy ideas from?

Just pure gaslighting.

70 years after the Red Scare and 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, President Trump and Republicans are trying to re-introduce a national fear of "godless communists" ahead of the critical midterms.

Why it matters: A wave of resounding victories by Democratic Socialists has the GOP trotting out a message that last worked when most of those candidates weren't even born.

It's too soon to know if the message is working -- but Trump and Republican strategists see an opening with voters old enough to remember Soviet-era nuclear drills and spy dramas.

The big picture: Former Trump aide Steve Bannon has argued for years that former Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy was right about communism's widespread infiltration into the U.S. government.

I have little use for Steve Bannon but he's basically right. Yes, the op goes back that far. "These aren't the communists in the State Department you're looking for."

As the communist's left favorite two-step deceit always goes:

CLAIM 1: There are no communists in the State Department

When Claim 1 falls, go to the back-up:

CLAIM 2: Well yes there are communists in the State Department but it's no big deal!

You see this two-step all the time. "Of course Democrats aren't grooming kids to be transgender"/"Of course Democrats are encouraging children to find their true sexual selves, as they should!!!"

On Sunday, Trump called communism "the Greatest Threat to our Country since World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or 9/11!"

Well yes, especially now that the would-be Pan-Communist Empire has fused with the Pan-Islamist Empire.

Once a fringe view, now right-wing voices seem to be calling for a McCarthyism revival.

In other words: It's so strange that now that Democrats are admitting to being communists, people are once again announcing themselves as communist-opponents!

What they're saying: "It's a common electoral strategy for conservatives to attack liberals, progressives, democratic socialists as communists, and imply therefore that they are much more extreme than they actually are," Kathryn Olmsted, a U.C. Davis distinguished professor of history, tells Axios.

But, she adds, "we're definitely reaching a new fever pitch."

Keep in mind the media has denied for 70 years that Democrats were socialists.

Now that the Democrat Socialists have taken over the Democrat Party, they say of course they're socialists, but that's a good thing!

Reality check: Democratic socialism is not communism. New York's Zohran Mamdani and Washington, D.C., mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George both call for expanded government programs, Axios' Josephine Walker writes.

"Any attempt to smear us as 'extremists' falls flat when so many Americans are struggling with the rising cost of housing, homelessness, unaffordable healthcare, and underfunded schools," a DSA spokesperson told Axios in a statement.

Still, Democrats are grappling with what it means for progressives and young Americans embracing labels that once stoked fears of communism.

Between the lines: Red-baiting "has much less resonance for a younger generation, which did not grow up living under the shadow of the Soviet Union," says Ethan Porter, co-director of GW's Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics.

"For many young voters, communism is just not an effective boogeyman."

We know, because they've embraced communism.

Below: CNN's "objective newsperson" Kaitlin Collins announces, as a factual matter, that Democrat Socialism is not communism because the comms department of the Democrat Party says it's not.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins: Democratic socialism is not Communism

DSA leader: Our goal is communism pic.twitter.com/Takzm4dSh8

— AG (@AGHamilton29) June 30, 2026

And below: The leader of the Democrat Socialists of America says "Our goal is communism."

But, but, but: Kaitlin Collins heard from a Democrat operative they're not communists! What gives?! We all know that communists strictly forbid lying in pursuit of communism, right?

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:20 PM

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