Republicans have been red-baiting Democrats for almost a century. Now Trump is trying the same thing
While formally launching his 2020 reelection campaign on Tuesday, President Trump circled back to a word he has used publicly at least 118 times since becoming president: socialism.
“No matter what label they use, a vote for any Democrat in 2020 is a vote for the rise of radical socialism and the destruction of the American Dream,” Trump said at his 60th rally since being sworn in.
Republicans linking Democrats and Democratic policy proposals to “socialism” or “communism” is nothing new, examples of which you can watch in the video above. But the tactic of “red-baiting” has roots in a near-century-long Republican campaign to discredit policies including Social Security, the G.I. Bill and Medicare.
Former president Herbert Hoover and the son of former president William Howard Taft warned that President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal would lead to socialism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/20/republicans-have-been-tying-democrats-socialism-years-trump-is-going-all-tradition/?utm_term=.f5ed3a90c070
I think two can play that game. It's time Democrats start--and never quit--Nazi-baiting Republicans by comparing their inhuman policies to those of Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot, and now PUtin and Kim Jung Un.
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