Trump hails American exceptionalism before railing at communism in US 250th celebration

According to France 24, President Trump used America's two hundred fiftieth Independence Day celebration to emphasize national exceptionalism while warning against what he called the sinister threat of communism. His rhetoric echoed the Red Scare of the nineteen fifties—one of America's darkest chapters, when alleged communists faced persecution and job blacklisting across the country.

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