President Donald Trump on Friday seized on the electoral success of several democratic socialist candidates to ramp up his attacks on the Democratic Party, claiming it was being taken over by “godless Communists” who pose an existential threat to the nation.

The heated rhetoric marked the latest bid by Trump to portray Democrats as political extremists ahead of November’s midterms — even though portrayals of even the party’s most liberal candidates as “communists” are far from reality.

“These are hard core, godless Communists,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post earlier on Friday, an accusation he repeated during remarks to a gathering of social conservatives. “This is the Greatest Threat to our Country since its Founding 250 years ago!”

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.worldOP
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    4 days ago

    In a country where a huge amount of people thought Biden was a communist a party like that might go over like a lead balloon.

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      Not if they successfully rebrand communism. People that are triggered by that word don’t have any clue it’s definition

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          Yeah but now Americans are actually directly being affected by the fascist idiots that ripped the mask off early.

          At this point a decent number of them are starting to wonder if the opposite side won’t be as bad. And that’s all that’s necessary to start righting the ship, if people are actually willing to step up and not just let the same octogenarian power brokers keep running everything.

          We went from Trump being elected a second time, to a dozen Democratic Socialists being elected and districts flipping 30+ points in just 2 years.

          Eventually people start to wonder why the rain is yellow and tastes like piss.