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Trump revives old tropes as he pushes warnings of ‘communist menace’


President harks back to red scare of his childhood to attack US left – but will such language resonate beyond Maga base?

Perhaps above all else, Donald Trump is a child of the cold war.

Three months before the US president was born, Winston Churchill delivered a historic speech in Fulton, Missouri, that ushered in a generations-long existential struggle between western capitalism and Soviet communism.

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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/26/trump-communism-democrats-red-scare

Author : Robert Tait in Washington

Publish date : 2026-07-26 10:00:00

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