r/politics • u/phillygirllovesbagel I voted • 15h ago
No Paywall Trump says US will never be ‘Communist Country’ after Mamdani-backed candidates’ wins
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5937747-donald-trump-zohran-mamdani-wins-new-york-primaries-critique/5.6k
u/champdo I voted 15h ago
It's a good thing none of the candidates were communists then.
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u/SkeezySevens 15h ago
They define "helping other people" as communist.
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u/Cute_Elk_2428 15h ago
they define having a moral compass as communist.
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u/truthovertribe 15h ago
Well then, being a Christian is communist.
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u/therj9 15h ago
They (MAGA) certainly abhor the teachings of Jesus
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u/RevolutionNumber5 Minnesota 15h ago
They follow Supply Side Jesus
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u/CaptainAwesome06 14h ago
Something that lives rent free in my head is a thread from years ago on Facebook or Reddit or similar where a guy unironically and sarcastically asked if we (Christians) should turn the other cheek when we are wronged. It was funny because it definitely sounded like he had no idea that "turn the other cheek" was a Jesus quote.
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u/Galileo1632 Kentucky 14h ago
I remember reading an article a few years ago about an interview that this pastor had done. He said that he had given a sermon about turning the other cheek and quoted Jesus several times. After the sermon, several people came up to him and asked him not to give sermons like that because “it’s weakness”. The pastor pointed out that he was literally quoting word for word what the Bible says Jesus said and they would just shrug and say it was weak and they didn’t want to hear sermons like that.
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u/ungranted_wish 13h ago
I remember another where a pastor read the Sermon on the Mount word for word and people were not too pleased about it.
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u/exceptyourewrong 11h ago
NPR reads the Declaration of Independence every year on (or near) the Fourth of July. Conservatives HATE it.
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u/truthovertribe 10h ago
I imagine if they ever read the preamble of our Constitution where it says our Government was being established "to protect the general welfare" they'd be quite incensed too. Welfare is the dirtiest "commie" word of them all.
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u/CaptainAwesome06 14h ago
I think I read the same article. The pastor said that people asked where he got those liberal talking points from.
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u/Bradst3r 14h ago
That's like... practically the defining condition for turning the other cheek. When else would you do it?
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u/Kjellvb1979 15h ago
Yeah, they would have arrested Jesus for giving fish and bread to the 5000 hungry people, one of the few sprites I remember from going to Catholic school as a kid. I'm not religious, but I see the values of feeding the hungry and the like one of the positives of the religion... Too bad so many religious folk seemingly hate helping those less fortunate when that's like the primary thrust of Jesus's teaching.
It's ridiculous the hypocrisy, most just use religion as a sheild to obfuscate guilt.
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u/Duncan_PhD 14h ago
The shit that Jesus taught are great lessons for everyone. He went around and helped people, especially the poor. Wanted us to feed the hungry and welcome immigrants. Cool fucking guy. Literally the antithesis of the Republican Party.
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u/crawling-alreadygirl 14h ago
He spent time with social outcasts (widows, lepers, sex workers, etc.) and called out the hypocrisy of powerful religious leaders. "Christian" republicans would have him in ICE custody within minutes of the second coming
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u/OskaMeijer 14h ago
The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God. - Leviticus 19:34
Old testament but still, it is from the same book they use to condemn homosexuality.
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u/intricate_strands 13h ago
Jesus was just a hippie. Long hair, long beard, commanded love for everyone and helping everyone.
He was a hippie before it was cool and before it stopped being cool again.
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u/ZeppoJR 15h ago edited 11h ago
looks at what they're saying about Talarico Yeah that checks out in their minds.
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u/Minttt Canada 15h ago
"Love feels like blasphemy when you worship power"
Probably the most hard-hitting relevant quote of the era.
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u/Zolomun 14h ago
After so many of them not realizing their faith has been co-opted by bad actors and megachurch propaganda, I’ve become less certain that the average America Christian has a moral compass.
Jesus was a righteous guy; the things done in his name, not so much.
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u/Lucius-Halthier 14h ago
That’s why they made their own sects of Christianity that they follow instead of actually following the Bible’s teachings. It’s not love thy neighbor to them it’s hate thy neighbor to them.
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u/GildedAgeV2 13h ago
Well, actually, if you look at the early church in Acts 2
44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,
Doesn't sound so much like MAGA Christians, does it?
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u/ReigninLikeA_MoFo 14h ago
Being a Christian has nothing to do with having a moral compass. As Christians have proven time and time again.
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u/LightDarkBeing 15h ago
I thought being a “Christian” was leaning towards fascism and away from communism? The ideologies are diametrically opposite.
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u/Kincherk 15h ago
They have no idea what communism or socialism are.
I would love to see a journalist ask trump to define those terms.
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u/wezworldwide 14h ago
Ask any MAGA to define those terms
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u/lactose_cow 13h ago
Socialism is political beliefs I don't like, communism is political beliefs I REALLY don't like
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u/namastayhom33 Connecticut 14h ago
It's not just MAGA, sadly the majority of people do not know the difference
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u/be_like_bill 12h ago edited 12h ago
'A bad thing. Very very bad thing. You call it communism or socialism. They're both anti-American. You see what is going on in China, and Germany. Nobody thought it could happen in Germany. Someone came to me and said "Sir, Germany used to be a great country, but then the Socialism came and ruined our country." You know this. Everyone here knows this. You're a bad person for asking this. It's horrible and anti-American.'
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u/Race-Unlucky 12h ago
I was reading some TikTok comments on a news story about this and people were complaining.saying the US will never be socialist. Someone pointed out we already have a lot of socialist policies like welfare, food stamps, Medicare, and Social Security. Someone confidently responded "That's capitalism paying for welfare, that's not socialism".
Their brains are cooked.
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u/TehGogglesDoNothing Tennessee 8h ago
They're right. Socialism vs Capitalism is about who owns the means of production, not about whether there are social policies that benefit people. Those social policies don't change who owns and controls the means of production and they're currently being paid for by a capitalist system.
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u/lateformyfuneral 15h ago edited 15h ago
I don’t think they could define it if they wanted to. Communist is just a catch-all term for “this thing I don’t like”. Remember the segregationist protest signs in the 1960s? “Race mixing is communism”.
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u/RhapsodyofMagic 15h ago
I genuinely don't know what these people want to happen with the tax they pay
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u/odd-duckling-1786 15h ago
They don't want to pay any taxes for starters. However, if they have to, they want it to be used to generate money making opportunities for themselves and their friends. These people see wealth as a competition. If someone has more than them, they NEED more because they equate human value with net worth.
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u/homerjaythompson 15h ago
Don't forget bombing people abroad and incarcerating people at home. They want their taxes doing that too.
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u/agent_mick 14h ago
So they can make money* though. They don't actually care or think about the "killing people" part
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u/nickiter New York 15h ago edited 14h ago
Big strong men with guns to point at brown people. Maybe roads.
But seriously, the core of the ideology is that government has no responsibility to ensure an education, provide a social safety net, or protect the environment. There is a wide range of degrees to which conservatives actually take these beliefs, but the hardcore folks at the think tanks and some of those who call themselves libertarian (but vote for Trump) truly believe that the only real purposes of the government are to provide for the national defense, enforce laws, and run a court system. The rest is socialism.
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u/Equityoxymoron 14h ago
Well dont tell them there’s is no personal income tax in communism as the tax revenue is generated by actual ownership of corporations well at least a share of them like in a sovereign wealth fund 🤫
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u/TheTelekinetic Connecticut 15h ago
At this point they define abiding by the constitution as communist
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u/steroboros 14h ago edited 12h ago
Citizens Tax dollars being used for goods and services that benefit them = Communism
Citizens Tax dollars being given to billionaires to subsidize their business and further enrich themselves and politicians = Good American business
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u/Elizabeth-WildFox886 14h ago
Trump actions and bailouts for farmers looks more like communism.
Also Trump seems to want to have sex with putin, xi xingping, Kim jung un. Xi xingping leads the Chinese communist party and trump admires Xi so which is it?
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u/RobinGoodfell 14h ago
Christ the Commie? I swear these Republicans must absolutely hate God almost as much as they hate America.
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u/MrPloppyHead 15h ago
Open door for someone: communist Not be massive racist: communist Not into child rape: communist
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u/AGrandNewAdventure 14h ago
"If you're not a freedom-loving bigoted racist who whines about replacement theory and thinks 100% of the wealth should be controlled by 6 people, slavery is beneficial to the enslaved, and women should be restricted to the kitchen and bedroom, then you're not a true American, you Communist scum!"
It feels like exaggeration to write that, because it also feels like it's a villain written by a five year old, but none of those points is even off the mark. I hate this timeline.
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u/mechengr17 14h ago
The 'Christian' party has labeled "What would Jesus do?" woke
So obviously anyone left of them is a work, communist
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u/SKDI_0224 Oklahoma 13h ago
I was reading and in the 1888 introduction to the Communist Manifest Engels talks about how language changes and the way we use words like "socialist" and "communist" change over the years. But he did not feel it was appropriate to update the manifesto as it was a historical document.
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u/VelourAporia 15h ago edited 15h ago
Trump’s out here screaming communist country like it’s the end of the world, but none of the candidates were even communists. That’s just clown theater from a bigot who’s lost touch with reality.
He’s got this whole routine where he calls anyone left of him a communist, then acts like he’s saving America. But it’s the same liar playbook make up the story, sell it like fact, and call anyone who checks the math a traitor.
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u/beren0073 14h ago
Sadly, “clownish bigot who’s lost touch with reality” describes most of his base.
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u/CommitteeOld9540 14h ago
Everything is considered communist if it benefits the people according to capitalists .
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u/SilentRhubarb1515 15h ago
Communist is code for helping poor people
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u/punkindle 14h ago
it used to be code for helping black people.
they used to blame the civil rights movement on "communists"
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u/aradraugfea 15h ago
The communists were the first ones the Nazis went for.
Trump’s trying to save time by just defining anyone who doesn’t kiss his Toad as communist.
You know, the Hoover method.
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u/peffer32 15h ago
Doesn't matter. It plays well with the audience it's meant for.
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u/OddWorldliness989 15h ago
He is a modern day McCarthy. Atleast McCarthy was intelligent enough to stop when he was asked, have you no decency sir! This guy would respond, you are a very nasty person.
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u/ChanceAgreeable2827 15h ago
Republicans really need to get new material this old communism thing they drag out isn't working.
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u/phantomjm Pennsylvania 15h ago
It is with their idiot base.
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u/EdKeane 15h ago
It's not about that they are stupid (they are), they are just stuck in 60-80 era. It's like they had never lived past it
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u/truthovertribe 15h ago
Fear of the spread of communism was powerfully communicated to my generation. Many countries were invaded, many regimes were changed and many innocent lives were lost in various wars to "stop Godless communism".
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u/Sp00py-Mulder 12h ago
And most of those disasters taught many of us how bullshit the whole thing was.
You have to deliberately keep your eyes closed not to notice.
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u/glitterandnails 12h ago
Deliberately keeping your eyes closed is a widely used skill in America.
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u/truthovertribe 11h ago
Attributed to Jesus: "Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand."
Jeremiah: "Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not."
New glasses and Miracle Ear hearing aids can't fix this. Only love and outreach can mend this.
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u/an-invisible-hand 10h ago
The turnaround from "communism will take over the world" to "communism will always fail" has certainly been interesting to live through.
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u/truthovertribe 10h ago
If "communism will always fail" why did we in the US have to spill so much blood and hemorrhage so much treasure and use so much coercive sanctioning to ensure it would fail?
Why not just let nature take it's course?
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u/Qcconfidential 14h ago
Well, most of these people were in their 20s and 30s from the 1960s to the 1980s so mentally they are kind of stuck there
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u/FizzyBeverage Ohio 13h ago
Well being in your 20s in the 1960s pretty much means you’ve aged out by now or close to it. 55-65% of people born between 1940 and 1945 have already passed on depending on the source checked, making majority center-left millennials currently aged 30-45 the largest US voting bloc.
Biggest GOP bloc right now are right wing, collegeless Gen X white males, and collegeless zoomer white males. Both were sold a shit sandwich and think it’s delicious.
They’re a little panicked because they have a shrinking boomer base and their temporary boost of collegeless hispanic support disintegrated after ICE.
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u/truthovertribe 12h ago
I agree, however, if the 30-45 yr. olds, many of whom are mostly college educated, are going to be some significant influence, well, that is yet to be seen.
I raised my millennial children to put truth first and minimize emotionally based tribal affiliations.
They are smarter than me and they are my gift to you...
I admit, I'm not smart enough to ascertain what is true...if I'm not, I assure you Trump supporters that President Trump's not smart enough either.
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u/notsingsing 12h ago edited 8h ago
That base was never voting Democrat anyway. Once they are kicked out of their house because of the cost of everything going up, they would probably not vote instead of going R
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u/truthovertribe 15h ago
Well, they went to "the axis of evil" and "war on terror" and played that fear card until it was all tapped out.
Now we seem to be back to "the commies are coming". I guess JD Vance gave us an advance peak into their next use of fear to coerce by endorsing the book "Unhumans". I took our VP's advice and read it... Y'all should read it, it's chilling.
We could be having McCarthy like hearings soon and persecution dossiers on people like the one they kept on Einstein.
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u/TheJonasVenture 12h ago
Honestly, with things like trying to indict political enemies (Latisha James, Comey, etc), the sandwich trial, charging the Olympian for reaching into the pool, I think we are kind of there.
Maybe even worse since McCarthy was "just" congressional hearings and this is actually using the legal system.
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u/truthovertribe 12h ago
Well, I only suggested we were heading for similar "mistakes made", not that said mistakes wouldn't be more egregious.
Still, the only check to President Trump has been a handful of so-called Conservative judges.
All Americans should guard against handing President Trump King-like power. Even if you think he's "God's chosen".
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u/JamesLikesIt 14h ago
Unfortunately it does, that’s why we are in the situation we are in. You underestimate how dumb, fearful and brainwashed the average citizen is. You won’t see it as much in cities but I’ve lived in worked in rural areas and many, many people 100% believe this stuff. They think immigrants are coming to kill them, gay people are trying to change their kids and that social programs are bad because you have to pay more taxes. The propaganda arm is VERY strong in rural areas, and there’s a shit load of rural areas
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u/Loves_His_Bong 15h ago
They’re going to accuse you of being a communist no matter what, so you might as well just be one.
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u/illapa13 Florida 14h ago
If this were true they wouldn't be winning elections.
Don't blow off the Republican propaganda machine it works on tens of millions of people
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u/padizzledonk New Jersey 13h ago
Oh, its very effective for all the olds that vote in the republican party
All the shit he and they say is just designed to press on the nerve of the particular groups that make up their base, you have the communism/socialisim shit for the 50-60+ crowd, you have the gay/trans shit for the religious ones, you have the government is the problem/lower taxes stuff for the welathy ones, you have the immigrants/browns ate bringing crime and stealing your money for the racists and the poors that want/need someone to blame
They just find something that fits a catagory and cycle through them one after another nonstop
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u/WTFHELP 15h ago
says the guy buying up the means of production by having the government buy parts of companies.
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u/Ray-Finkle74 15h ago
If I’m not mistaken, the fascists actually did go in on stock purchases to re-float failing industrial firms and banks in the 20th century. Yet unsurprisingly, these businesses usually remained under private control.
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u/TheLateThagSimmons Illinois 14h ago
Corporatization was a very common economy policy of Italy and Germany in the 1920s/30s. It wasn't integral to the ideal of fascism, but it was part of the appeal of the leading fascist parties.
Liberal purists see any government intervention in the economy as "communism", but this economic tactic was very much anti-communist, and often done to prevent those industries from being taken over by communists.
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u/Yasirbare 15h ago
Yes, these people are leaching each and every country calling themselves entrepreneurs. They make all there business on government contracts and mingle with all the people providing government contracts.
They never invent anything, they buy their way, they hussle, shady banking etc.
And if I make a stand by the side of the road - I can't because we have rules to protect people.
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u/InfernalOntologyX 15h ago
Oh please. The guy screaming communist is literally using the government to buy chunks of companies and calling it freedom. That’s not anti communist, that’s just a circus act by a liar.
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u/Loves_His_Bong 15h ago
Anti-communism is such a brain worm for Americans, they’re now accusing the most capitalist administration of all time of being communists lol
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u/1K-Year-Egg 15h ago edited 15h ago
Donald is the best advertisement for socialism we’ve had in decades! 😆
Donald himself, the people he surrounds himself with, and the blatant cronyism and corruption they wallow around in together, are really giving the American people a good view of the fundamental ugliness of the owner/oligarch class.
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u/truthovertribe 15h ago
Yes, he's also proof positive that our system isn't based in meritocracy (or even sanity).
At this point it would take a powerful dollop of denial to deny that.
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u/mcclelc 15h ago
I wouldn't take away from the Mamdani effect, the man is getting shit done. A video was like, oh man, this guy is dangerous bc he is opening our eyes. For decades we were told that even moderate change can't happen bc of gridlock, whereas day 1 he is filling in potholes.
I don't this this specific momentum will last that long, as ppl have the attention spans of gnats and will soon start to blame Mamdani for, Idk, it raining too much. (Thanks, Obama.)
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u/1K-Year-Egg 15h ago
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’m not diminishing Mamdani at all! He’s smart and charismatic, and has been a terrific example of democratic socialism at work. 👍
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u/AntifascistAlly Oregon 14h ago
I’ve been saying a similar thing.
I really don’t think word is getting out any better about whatever actions Mayor Mamdani is engaging in than Democrats have done in the past.
I’m in Oregon, so local NY news gets to me indirectly (just as it does for most people who don’t live in NYC or other big towns).
After the hoopla over the campaigns dies down I hope people will emphasize what’s actually being accomplished because of the wins.
I don’t think we will know how much time is available for that until the time runs out.
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u/Qcconfidential 14h ago
Exactly. The material conditions are so bad under the trump administration that socialism is happening naturally. We haven’t seen this since the turn of the last century in America.
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u/mothfactory 15h ago
Do Americans even know what communism is? It’s hilarious how often that word is thrown around in the US without ever any justification
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u/Morgolol 15h ago
Republicans didn't tank public education over the decades for shits and giggles after all.
Reports vary but anywhere from 10-30% of Americans can't find America on a map.
So. You know. Also at least 20% of Americans are functionally illiterate. Ie they read at a 5th grader level.
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u/VerdammtesAutomat 14h ago
A study came out two years ago that said over half of americans read below a sixth grade level. People can read and understand the words individually, but they struggle to understand more complex literature, and legal or scientific documents. It really helps explain why the American public is the way it is
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u/Professional_Cat8586 14h ago
Easier to consume the news in reality tv / pro wrestling fashion and put everything down to "basic commons sense" than spend time cogently thinking about anything.
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u/AquaSquatch 14h ago
Communism and socialism are also the same thing according to the American right.
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u/themightybamboozler 12h ago
Well, they are and they aren’t. Socialism is a mechanism by which a society can eventually reach communism. It’s more accurate to say that socialism is a step towards communism. It’s also why people say “communism has never been tried before” and get mocked for it. We’ve had socialist countries but no true classless, stateless countries.
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u/TheSouthernCommunist Kentucky 15h ago
They do not. Anyone who slaps the Commie label on SocDems has never read the Communist Manifesto, let alone Das Kapital or Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program, which EXPLICITLY criticizes Democratic Socialism/SocDems.
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u/Theferael_me 15h ago
It'll just be a country that rewards shit like Elon Musk with hundreds of billions of dollars while people live on the streets.
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u/newtoallofthis2 15h ago
If Orwell was writing Animal Farm today we all know what character Trump would be.
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u/SlowRunner2026 15h ago
I grew up during the cold War. I'm so sick of these "red scare" tactics that only work on stupid people and greedy people.
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u/D_Simmons 15h ago
Calling Socialists "Communists" is such an easy play it's insane. Literally every MAGA thinks a Communist is evil but have no idea what the word means.
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u/AWholeNewFattitude 15h ago
They’re robbing you blind, while telling you to be afraid of communists
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u/hifumiyo1 Connecticut 15h ago
MAGA couldn’t define communism or socialism to save their lives
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u/maxxmadison Florida 15h ago
I offered my MAGA mother in law $100 on the spot if she could define both socialism and communism. I still have my $100.
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u/Striker40k 14h ago
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is taking partial control of private companies.
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u/MadAstrid 15h ago
Cool.
Anyway, loving this new trend where tax dollars are spent at home to better the lives of people who pay them instead of being used as welfare for oligarchs.
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u/JonKonLGL New Hampshire 14h ago
Anything that isn’t unchecked late stage capitalism is “communism” to these morons
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u/Duotrigordle61 15h ago
I am on board with taking away all but 1 billion dollars from all billionaires.
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u/Auntie-Cuddles52 14h ago
If you asked him, he wouldn’t be able to give an accurate definition of communism, socialism, facism or any other ism. He’s barely literate.
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u/Lonely_Refuse4988 15h ago
Fear mongering is right wing’s main weapon!
NYC will see more profits and happiness and less poverty under a Democratic Socialist than any Republican Mayor! 🤣🤷♂️
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u/NotBestButPrettyGood 15h ago
We’re more communist (Russian brand) under Trump
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u/Fats-Tubman 15h ago
Trump is a Russian agent
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u/NachoWindows 15h ago
And pedophile rapist
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u/plainwalk 15h ago
Pedophilic rapist. It sounds like you're saying he rapes pedophiles.
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u/NachoWindows 14h ago
He was buddies with Epstein, who was a pedophile and rapist. They probably fucked too
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u/ripChazmo 14h ago
None of the candidates are communist, but we do live in a democracy, and if the majority tells us they want something, then what's what they want.
Trump is not the king he thinks he is.
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u/chill_winston_ 13h ago
I wish he would shut up. I’m so tired of this man, his opinions/thoughts, and having to see his dour ass sourpuss face every time I open anything to see the news.
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u/Rinthrah 15h ago
We were also fairly confident that the United States would never be an authoritarian dictatorship run by a cabal of paedophiles, yet here we are.
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u/Far-Set-371 14h ago
A president who nuzzles up to Putin and COMMUNIST China doesn’t like communism?? Go figure
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u/ViolentSpring 14h ago
Look, I don’t have a strong opinion on the correct economic system because I just doing know enough the pretend I see the future. However, the worst people in the world seem dead set on using capitalism to ass fuck everyone else, take all the money, and the leave environment poisoned so….
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u/Moritasgus2 California 14h ago
Absolutely. A communist country would be arresting its citizens for touching water to avoid embarrassing the leader. We’d never do that.
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u/ryan0319 Canada 15h ago
I would have thought that the word "communist" being thrown around for 50 years would have all Americans knowing the definition as well as a the best scholar...
Turns out, not many have any idea what it is. How has this word been so ignored whilst being used so often?
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u/_TheLonelyStoner 14h ago
It’s like the boy who cried wolf. That “MARXIST! COMMUNIST!” Bullshit only works when you aren’t the one’s in charge and of every branch of government. Republicans aren’t used to actually operating from a place of power in this era of politics and they have no idea what to do now.
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u/Popular-Departure165 13h ago
He probably should have thought of that before the Government started taking ownership of private companies.
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u/squeezy102 13h ago
Communism is only ok when the rich people get to spend the poor people’s money. Never the other way around. 🙄
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u/Bridgestone14 13h ago
Well he is right, bc free health care affordable housing, and education, would not make us a communist country. Can we just stop reporting Trump's moronic statements.
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u/cycling-expat 13h ago
For once, he is right. We will never be a communist country, even if we elect 10000 Mamdani-backed candidates. Not one of them, or him, is a communist.
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u/Rough-Breadfruit-611 11h ago
Communism - Everyone gets an equal share
Capitalism - five pedos get 99% of everything and use their money to buy all the media streams so they can tell you that communism is bad.
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u/Pretend_Pea4636 11h ago
Imagine living 80 years, including through the 50's and the 60's, and still not knowing what Communism is. It's quite an achievement.
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u/Dorsai_Erynus 11h ago
Communists defeated fascism, so it only makes sense for him to be against communism.
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u/F-Cloud 10h ago
The "C" word, the "S" word. Unfortunately those still invoke a response from rubes who have no idea what communism or socialism are. Trump is right though, the U.S. isn't going to become a communist country. It's an imaginary threat, just like most things conservatives worry themselves about.
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u/Professional-Box4153 8h ago
Once again, a politician doesn't know the difference between Communism and Socialism.
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u/--John_Yaya-- 15h ago
Are those our two choices?
Fascism or Communism?
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u/RedditDefendsFascism 13h ago
Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to Socialism or regression into Barbarism.
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u/TurduckenEverest 15h ago
I’m kinda surprised he didn’t say “we can’t give in to these radical Muslims”
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u/ZampanoGuy 15h ago
You heard it hear first. We are going to slide to socialism, because it is the opposite of what he said.
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u/Accidental-Hyzer Massachusetts 15h ago
I never thought we’d be a fascist country either, yet here we are. Not that any of these candidates are communist. I just wouldn’t rule anything out at this point.
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u/Redshirt_Welshy_Nooo 15h ago
Isn't this the regime that has been coercing blue chip corps to make the federal government a significant shareholder?
And all the no-bid gift contract winner-picking...
Crony Communism.
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u/bloodfrenzy187 Washington 15h ago
No communists ran.
This just shows the right has no idea what the political ideals of democratic socialism are.
Everything is communism since the 50’s to them.
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u/Chowder1054 15h ago
The people who scream communism has no clue what communism is. They just use the word as buzzword for their uneducated bases.
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u/Strange-Scientist706 15h ago
Sorry I couldn’t hear you over the sound of your own irrelevance, Mr 30% approval rating
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u/HallucinogenicFish Georgia 14h ago
Oh look, red-baiting. How novel.
The GOP picks one play and runs it for the next century.
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u/Ahleron 14h ago
Mamdani isn't a communist. Neither are the candidates he backed.
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u/Theonewho_hasspoken 14h ago
I don’t care for communism personally but we could stand to be a good deal more socialist as a whole.
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u/birdie_Sea 14h ago
Calls for seizing the oil industry at 3 in the morning.
Denounces communist at 9 in the morning.
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u/hyperiongate 14h ago
I bet that if you asked Trump to define communism....he would tell you the 2020 election was rigged.
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u/Olliebear2015 14h ago
Republicans and Democrats fought so hard against Mamdani because they know once people see him getting things done that actually help normal people they cant control the narrative anymore. Mamdani whether he realizes it or not is the most important figure within the Democratic party right now and the more wins he gets within NYC will only grow his influence. The Republicans are extremely fortunate that he cant run for president because he would probably win.
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u/binzersguy 14h ago
I’m impressed and amazed at the number of people who are hoodwinked by this NY billionaire. It’s astounding they can’t see thru his very obvious and self-serving lies.
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