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Dems Join Trump’s Anti-Socialist Campaign

How long can this McCarthyite idyll last?

by Paul Kengor

February 27, 2020, 1:04 PM

Bernie Sanders reacting to President Trump’s condemnation of socialism during the 2019 State of the Union address (YouTube screenshot)

A year ago, in his 2019 State of the Union, Donald Trump vowed, “Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country. Tonight, we renew our resolve that America w...

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Paul Kengor is Editor of The American Spectator. Dr. Kengor is also a professor of political science at Grove City College, a senior academic fellow at the Center for Vision & Values, and the author of over a dozen books, including A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism, and Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.

Dems Join Trump’s Anti-Socialist Campaign How long can this McCarthyite idyll last?

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Dems Join Trump’s Anti-Socialist Campaign

How long can this McCarthyite idyll last?