Trump has a new line of malarkey to peddle. He has decided that Democrats are not only “Dumbocrats,” they are Communists.

Trump does not know anything about bipartisanship. He knows nothing about the tradition of treating the other party with respect. He knows only how to dish out insults and ridicule.

He always has to stir up his base by having someone to hate. Communists are a good target.

When he spoke at Mount Rushmore on July 3, he warned about a “communist menace,” a threat posed by the election of two Democratic Socialists in New York City and one in Denver, Colorado.

  • He said, “There is now a resurgence of the communist menace in our land.”  
  • He added, “You can be a communist, or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both.”  
  • He described communism as “a mortal threat to American liberty,” and argued that Americans must defend the country’s founding principles against it.  

Again, at his late-night speech on July 4, he warned about the danger of the Communist threat.

Among his statements were:

  • “Our warriors did not fight communism on battlefields across the world, only to have that menace rear its ugly head right back here in America.”  
  • He added, “It’s like a cancer, you got to cut it out.”  
  • He also declared that America “will never be a communist country“.

Democrats are not Communists.

Democratic Socialists are not Communists. They are Democratic Socialists like Senator Bernie Sanders and like the parties in Northern European nations such as Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. These are nations that spend generously for the health, education, and welfare of their citizens.

Does Trump know the distinction between Democratic Socialists and Communists? It’s hard to know since his knowledge is not expansive.

But he has his target. He will use smear tactics. He will fulminate about the “communist menace,” and about others who “don’t love America” as he allegedly does.

After all these years, we know who he is and we know he will lie without hesitation.

Be prepared. He is desperate.