“There is now a resurgence of the communist menace in our land,” Donald Trump warned in his Mount Rushmore speech.
The reflexive response of his critics owed in this instance not solely to conditioned opposition to this president. For nearly a century, a no-enemies-to-the-left progressivism likens communists to witches (i.e., they are not real) as they minimize the murder and destruction unleashed by this supposedly imaginary phenomenon.
Communist liars count on useful idiots such as McCreesh to gaslight the public that communism poses no threat.
The latest instance of the witches-aren’t-real-but-if-they-were-they-would-be-more-Glinda-than-Wicked-Witch-of-the-West argument comes from The New York Times.
Shawn McCreesh writes of President Trump’s speech, “He said the word ‘communism’ so many times, you might’ve thought the Cold War was still on.” The Times placed the word “reporting” above the article and called its author a “reporter” beneath it, so one might’ve thought the Old Gray Lady still a newspaper.
“Four months before tough midterm elections,” McCreesh writes, “President Trump used the backdrop of Mount Rushmore one night before the nation’s 250th birthday to characterize his political opponents as ‘godless,’ ‘evil’ communists.
Are there any other kind?
The president seems guilty of a redundancy rather than hyperbole. Such subtleties seem lost on McCreesh, who goes for the sledgehammer when a flyswatter might do in “reporting” that the stone visages of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt “looked as though they were crying” in the Friday night storm.
If communists did try to infiltrate the American political system, then we know this one thing for sure: they would call themselves by a name other than “communist.” They would do this because communism relies on an ends-justify-the-means morality. In other words, “communist” is another word for “liar.”
North Korea’s Communist dictators call their prison-state the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea.
The first line of its 1918 Constitution declares the Soviet Union a republic that represents workers, soldiers, and peasants. After the Krondstadt Rebellion of 1921, the Communists affixed stones to the necks of noncompliant workers, sailors, and peasants and dumped them into the Northern Dvina.
In the United States, communists denied or refused to answer whether they belonged to a party that advocated that ideology’s ideals. In this way, something that called itself a party behaved as though a criminal conspiracy. I do not know the Russian word for “omerta.” But the same mouths-shut mentality that characterizes the mafia applies to the communists. The notion of a “witch hunt” terrorizing innocents became such an article of faith that even someone as preposterously guilty as Alger Hiss — both the Soviet archives and American intelligence decrypts released during the 1990s piled damning evidence atop the already-quite high Guilty Mountain — became the subject of a bound apologia last year.
Communist liars count on useful idiots such as McCreesh to gaslight the public that communism poses no threat. What Charles Baudelaire said of Satan, “The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist,” also applies to Soviets.
The emergence of disaffected graduate students Darializa Avila Chevalier and Melat Kiros as Democratic Party nominees indicates that, yes, as the president indicates, something communist this way comes.
The wealth-tax confiscation, government grocery stores, and childcare-, eldercare-, gender-affirming-care-, Medicare-for-all platform indicates the degree to which this new crop of Democrats looks not to John Kennedy but Karl Marx for ideas. A belief in the theory of surplus value, i.e., that all profit amounts to theft, and the notion of the collective ownership of the means of production more accurately signals whether one falls under the communist banner than the sweet-sounding labels one places upon oneself.
If you do not believe this, then I have a bridge in Democratic Kampuchea that I would like to sell you.
“Communism is the exact opposite of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” President Trump declared in South Dakota. “It’s death, tyranny, and the pursuit of evil.”
It is.
Count on the newspaper that denied Stalin’s imposed famine on Ukraine in the mid-1930s and portrayed Fidel Castro as a democrat and not a communist in the late 1950s to reject this basic truth.
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