Trump revives old tropes as he pushes warnings of ‘communist menace’

President Trump is reviving Cold War-era warnings about a communist menace to attack the American left. The Guardian reports he's reaching back to the red scare rhetoric of his childhood—drawing on tensions that defined the post-World War II era. The open question: whether such language still resonates with voters beyond his core political base.

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