Brett T. at Twitchy chronicled how the tweeters mocked the liberals at Axios for warning: “GOP reboots the Red Scare as young Democrats embrace socialism.” They don't want to spend any time identifying the actual communist sympathies displayed by the Democratic Socialists of America candidates winning primaries.
The use of the term “Red Scare” always implied falsehood, that there were no actual communists to be exposed. Warning about the dangers of the Soviet Union was for kooks, and so was worry about communist spies in the United States (they were real). Today, you're supposed to ignore communists winning seats in Congress, as in CNN gumshoe Andrew Kaczynski's report that incoming congresswoman Darializa Avila Chevalier was tweeting communist content in 2020:
Archived posts and retweets during this timeframe included a recommendation that Karl Marx’s Capital was an “essential must-read,” a complaint that public libraries did not carry enough Marxist literature by Lenin and other revolutionary writers, and a retweet from a Communist-identifying account lamenting that bookstore “banned books” displays did not include The Complete Works of J. V. Stalin.
Graham Platner identified as a communist in a 2020 Reddit post, but he gets a syrupy cover story in Time magazine, must like Zohran Mamdani did. But who needs to present evidence? Axios implied communism's on the ash heap of history (so pay no attention to say, China or Cuba or North Korea):
70 years after the Red Scare and 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, President Trump and Republicans are trying to re-introduce a national fear of "godless communists" ahead of the critical midterms.
Why it matters: A wave of resounding victories by Democratic Socialists has the GOP trotting out a message that last worked when most of those candidates weren't even born.
It's too soon to know if the message is working — but Trump and Republican strategists see an opening with voters old enough to remember Soviet-era nuclear drills and spy dramas.
So the right-wingers are still channeling Tom Clancy novels, those crazy kooks. Then came the "reality check"!
Reality check: Democratic socialism is not communism. New York's Zohran Mamdani and Washington, D.C., mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George both call for expanded government programs, Axios' Josephine Walker writes.
"Any attempt to smear us as 'extremists' falls flat when so many Americans are struggling with the rising cost of housing, homelessness, unaffordable healthcare, and underfunded schools," a DSA spokesperson told Axios in a statement.
Mamdani spoke of "seizing the means of production," which certainly sounds like Karl Marx copy. Axios presented DSA statements as "news" like helpful press aides.
PS: Axios also wants you to believe that establishment Democrats are "centrists," not liberals, with this piece:
House Dem centrists plot Mamdani Caucus counterattack
Moderate House Democrats are warning they're prepared for "war" if incoming progressives and democratic socialists try to hijack the House floor to secure ideological concessions.
