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!”

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    Is this the same “god” that demands rich people give all their wealth the poor and needy, and that their followers do everything in their power to provide for the needs and well-being of others?

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    We’re finally starting to get the left we deserve instead of the one pulled center by an opposition giving cover to rapists, pedophiles, spousal abusers and murderers.

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      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.

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    Theres really very little difference between the policy aims of republicans and DNC centrists. They should really get along like peas and carrots.

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          Sideshow, or rather symptom of the wider problem of wealth disparity, a pay to play legal and political system, and the Victorian class system returning as Thomas Picketty predicted.

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        And there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment. At this time, a friend shall lose his friend’s hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o’clock.

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    Well, I happen to like the godless communist ones. I’m cool with the godded communists, too, tbh.

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      Honestly even at face value a “godless communist” sounds pretty great right now.

      I acknowledge that communism is not without its problems, but the US can afford to head in that direction for a few years.

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    I live in a country that was occupied by the Soviet Russia, yet people here don’t talk as much about communists as Americans. This obsession is fascinating.