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Normale Ansicht

Republicans, Facing Midterm Peril, Try to Brand Democrats as Communists

12. September 2026 um 10:00
Communism, in the president’s hyperbolic telling, is a graver threat to the country than the Pearl Harbor or 9/11 attacks were. Whether this midterm strategy works is an open question.

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During the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas this week, President Donald Trump returned — again and again and again — to baseless claims that Democrats were running as communists in the midterms.

Down in the Polls, Republicans Embrace a Familiar Tool: Fear

10. September 2026 um 10:04
At an unusual midterm gathering, President Trump and his allies painted Democrats as dangerously un-American.

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Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana warned of a “Bolshevik Revolution in the Democratic Party.”

Michael Parenti, Unapologetic Marxist Theorist and Author, Dies at 92

03. Februar 2026 um 19:09
A prolific writer and lecturer, he viewed U.S. history through the lens of class struggle. But some accused him of defending brutal regimes in the Soviet Union and Serbia.

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Michael Parenti in 1999. A feisty lecturer and critic of the mainstream media, he often took positions that few others on the American left would take.
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