Can We Keep Our Republic?
Can We Keep Our Republic?
If the Dems win, Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of America will be complete.
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
When asked the type of government the Constitutional Convention had created, Benjamin Franklin famously replied, “A Republic, if you can keep it.” Franklin and the Founders understood that given a flawed human nature and its passion for power, no form of political order can survive if it is not continually maintained and defended against attempts to dismantle it in order to empower one faction at the expense of others, thus diminishing their freedom.
Since the election of Donald Trump, we have been watching one of the most serious assaults on the Constitutional Republic in our history. With the current efforts of the Democrat-controlled House to engineer public support for impeachment, this three-year attack is intensifying. The climactic battle will be fought on November 3, 2020 when America goes to the polls to select the president. On that day will be decided not just which party will take the White House, but which vision of government will rule us: The Constitutional order of popular sovereignty, federalism, and divided powers; or a technocratic oligarchy of centralized and concentrated power.
Or to put it more starkly: Can we keep our nation of free citizens, or will we become one of managed clients?
This competition of political philosophies is not about Donald Trump’s alleged violations of mythic “democratic norms” or “presidential decorum.” In fact, the bipartisan evocation of such codes of political manners reflects the preference for the technocratic oligarchy that has ruled and misruled the country since the Second World War. Its roots go back even farther than that. The first progressives of the late 19th century were frankly technocratic, disdainful of separated and balanced powers, and advocates of the new “human sciences” that they claimed had made obsolete the wisdom of the Founders, the guidance of tradition, and the lessons of history.
Starting with Woodrow Wilson, and continuing through FDR’s New Deal, LBJ’s Great Society programs, and Barack Obama’s further expansion of entitlement programs and take-over of the health care industry, the country has been moving relentlessly toward more and more centralization of federal power, expansion of the federal regulatory regime, and encroachment on the freedom of states, civil society, families, and individuals.
And don’t forget, along the way Republican elites have supported and abetted this weakening of the Republic. They have created or expanded intrusive regulatory agencies like the EPA and the Department of Education, illiberal programs like race-conscious set-asides, and increased the number and scope of redistributionist programs like Medicaid and Social Security. More recently they have joined forces with the identity-politics left to support amnesty for illegal aliens and laxer immigration protocols. Worse yet, they have frequently endorsed and legitimized the politicized, illiberal ideology of race, “gender,” ethnicity, and sexual identity that provides Democrats with tools for leveraging political power and influence in order to achieve “social justice.”
Whether through design, instinct, or common sense, Donald Trump exposed this capitulation of many establishment Republicans to the shibboleths of the illiberal, Leviathan Democrats. His patriotism and populism spoke to millions of voters who could tell when they were being ignored or talked-down to by so-called conservatives, who joined their fellow globalist elites in dismissing the working-class voters’ concerns about lost jobs, lost foundational beliefs and values, and lost love for America and our national identity.
Hence the bipartisan rage against Trump and the 63 million Americans who ignored their “betters” and put Trump in office. And the president’s successes in invigorating the economy, rolling back regulations, championing religious freedom, and taking off the “kick me” sign the previous administration had hung on America’s back, all enraged his enemies further. NeverTrump Republicans are the worse. They became unhinged, obsessing over Trump’s brash, vulgar, plain-talking, hit-back style, rather than acknowledging that his governing actions like tax reductions and deregulation have long been conservative desiderata, and are certainly light-years ahead of what a President Hillary Clinton would have wrought. Such Republicans have become the de facto fifth column of the progressive “resistance,” giving aid and comfort to those who once in power would continue to dismantle the Constitutional order that protects the citizens’ political freedom and autonomy.
Most important, the means by which this assault on Trump has been executed represent the most sustained abuse of government power at least since World War II. The administration of the previous president––including very likely the president himself––and the powerful federal agencies overseeing police, justice, and intelligence, like classic tyrants turned these lethal government powers against a political rival, blatantly violating the oaths they had sworn to uphold the Constitution. Abetted by a corrupt media that no longer hide their political passions, they used state power to engineer the “Russia collusion” hoax that was so flimsy even two years of investigation by hostile deep-state operatives and Democrat donors could not find any evidence to support it.
And along the way, they violated the protocols and legal guard-rails of formal investigations to achieve their ends: First, to discredit the Trump campaign, and then to hamstringing his presidency. The examples of this professional and civic malfeasance are legion and amply documented by Andy McCarthy, Gregg Jarret, and many others. But there are two that are particularly egregious.
First was James Comey’s phony investigation of Hillary’s felonious abuse of rules for handling sensitive government information. Even worse was the press conference in which he laid out the obvious predicates of an indictment, then found a nonexistent “intention” proviso in the penumbras and emanations of the relevant statute, and then usurped the Attorney General’s authority as to whether or not to indict by making the decision himself during the press conference.
The second violation has not been as commented on as it should be––the handling of the “hacked” DNC servers scandal. We know the narrative, since it is regularly repeated even by conservative commentators: Several of our intelligence agencies discovered that a Russian operative named Guccifer 2.0 hacked the DNC servers, and then via Wikileaks publicized the contents to embarrass Hillary and weaken the Democrats, the goal being to help Donald Trump in the 2016 election. This has become a foundational dogma of the whole Russia collusion, foreign interference, Trump corruption tale that provides the flimsy rationale for the Trump-haters’ invective and calls for impeachment.
But as George Parry summarizes in an important analysis, this claim is unsubstantiated by any forensic evidence. On the contrary, an investigation by the “Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), an organization of former CIA, FBI, National Security Agency, and military intelligence officers, technical experts, and analysts,” discovered something quite different. The whole report is worth reading, but here is the salient conclusion that the files were not hacked, but downloaded directly from the DNC server:
How was this determined? The time stamps contained in the released computer files’ metadata establish that, at 6:45 p.m. July 5, 2016, 1,976 megabytes (not megabits) of data were downloaded from the DNC’s server. This took 87 seconds, which means the transfer rate was 22.7 megabytes per second, a speed, according to VIPS, that “is much faster than what is physically possible with a hack.” Such a speed could be accomplished only by direct connection of a portable storage device to the server. Accordingly, VIPS concluded that the DNC data theft was an inside job by someone with physical access to the server.VIPS also found that, if there had been a hack, the NSA would have a record of it that could quickly be retrieved and produced. But no such evidence has been forthcoming. Can this be because no hack occurred?Even more remarkable, the experts determined that the files released by Guccifer 2.0 have been “run, via ordinary cut and paste, through a template that effectively immersed them in what could plausibly be cast as Russian fingerprints.” In other words, the files were deliberately altered to give the false impression that they were hacked by Russian agents.
Some have challenged VIPS’s analysis, but one fact casts a huge cloud of suspicion on the intelligence agencies’ publicized assertion that Russians engineered the hack: None of them have analyzed the server themselves, despite having the resources to do so. The DNC refused to hand over the server, instead passing along a forensic analysis by a firm it hired called CrowdStrike, according to VIPS “a cybersecurity firm of checkered reputation and multiple conflicts of interest, including very close ties to a number of key anti-Russian organizations.”
Again, the FBI and other security agencies came to their conclusion about the Russian hack based on the word of a dodgy outfit paid by the DNC. Remind you of a famous fake “dossier” also paid for by Democrats, and used by government officials to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on American citizens?
Apart from that hard evidence casting doubt on the narrative, we can challenge the assumption that Russia would prefer Trump over Hillary. Hillary had a public record of supporting Obama’s “reset” with Russia, which featured his infamous hot-mic promise of “flexibility” on granting Putin’s wish for the US to stop missile-defense installations in Eastern Europe after Obama’s reelection––an example of actual collusion with a foreign power in order to affect the outcome of the imminent 2012 presidential election. And Hillary herself, through Russian donations to her foundation and her help in transferring 20% of our uranium stocks to a subsidiary of a Russian company, had raked in millions of dollars. Why wouldn’t Putin prefer this known appeaser and grifter over the volatile and unknown Donald Trump, who has in fact been much tougher with Putin than Obama and Clinton ever were?
So the most powerful investigative agencies in the world have relied on the investigation of foreign hired guns to determine that Russia hacked the DNC to help Donald Trump. Nor did the FBI or the Mueller investigation seem interested in getting to the bottom of this blatant act of foreign interference in an American election, the ostensible reason for the Special Counsel’s investigation in the first place. A better explanation is that yet once again, government security and police agencies were colluding in fabricating the narrative to misdirect the people from Hillary’s various shady actions, and to tar her rival with a Russian bogeyman redolent of the McCarthy era “Red scare.”
The Mueller investigation having come a cropper, now we have the even more transparently contrived and dishonest “Ukraine” scandal to provide the media fuel for impeachment. The media are in a frenzy, and their Republican NeverTrump allies are contributing to the effort. Mitt Romney and other Republican preemptive cringers are piling on. The Dems think that even if the Senate doesn’t vote to convict, they’ll have thrown enough mud on the president that a critical mass of voters will turn against him. And if the economy slows down enough, that could turn out to be a smart strategy.
Nor should we take comfort in the buffoonish slate of Dem primary candidates to save us, for the stakes are too high. The corruption of the Constitution and federal agencies of the past three years is exactly what follows when power is concentrated and citizen autonomy is surrendered to unaccountable, unelected technocrats. In the end the primary job of our national government is to defend us from foreign enemies and protect our freedoms from internal ones, not intrude into elections for their own political and careerist aggrandizementß.
If the Dems win, and they succeed in abolishing the Electoral College, making the Senate proportionately representative, eviscerating the First and Second Amendments, and transforming the United States from the exceptional Republic and indispensable champion of unalienable rights and freedom it is, to just another client of a supranational, technocratic empire like the EU––then Obama’s aim of “fundamentally transforming” America will have been achieved.
And that will be the moment, after more than two centuries, we failed to keep our Republic.
Barack Obama: A Lifelong
Story of Russian Collusion
Frank Marshall Davis
Alice Palmer
David Axelrod
Valerie Jarrett
Council for a Livable
World
How Many Russian Agents Do
You Know?
Democrats Allow Communists
to Infiltrate Their Party Across the Nation
Support and
Infiltration
Opposition
OPERATION OBOMB:
DESTABILIZE AMERICA TO LAY
GROUNDS FOR A MUSLIM-STYLE DICTATORSHIP
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Obama Appointees in the Communist Orbit
Obama
choose Communists and Marxists for the highest, most powerful positions in our
land, including his closest political advisors, and his head of the CIA.
These facts are not in dispute. Most are openly admitted by the people in
question, as necessary damage control. Our press chooses not to
report them.
Democrats Hold a Terrible
Hand of Race Cards
Marxists Work to Reinforce
‘The Squad’ in 2020
Cori Bush
Albert Lee
Mike Siegel
Eva Putzova
We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
Marxists Work to Reinforce
‘The Squad’ in 2020
Cori Bush
Albert Lee
Mike Siegel
Eva Putzova
We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
Former president Barack Obama speaks at a rally in Detroit,
Michigan, on Oct. 26, 2018. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
Barack Obama: A Lifelong
Story of Russian Collusion
Commentary
Several U.S. presidents have genuinely
colluded with Russia or the former Soviet Union, but none
more so the 44th president of the United States, Barack
Obama. It’s no exaggeration to say that Obama
owes his entire career to Russian collusion.
In March 2012, President Obama made his
famous “off mic” remarks to then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev: “This is my
last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.” Medvedev replied,
“I understand. I transmit this information to Vladimir.”
Was this some innocent remark, or was it
just as it seems: a friend passing a message to a friend?
Obama has surrounded himself with
pro-Moscow “friends” all his life. Why should he desert his friends just
because he was president of the United States?
Just after Obama’s election to the
presidency on Nov. 15, 2008, Sam Webb, then-chairman of the still pro-Moscow
Communist Party USA, told his party comrades: “The
left can and should advance its own views and disagree with the Obama
administration without being disagreeable. Its tone should be respectful. We
are speaking to a friend.”
A lifelong friend.
Frank Marshall Davis
The young Obama, when he was 10 or 11
years old, was introduced to the Hawaii-based poet Frank
Marshall Davis by his maternal grandfather. Obama
maintained a relationship with the septuagenarian Davis until he left Hawaii
for Occidental College in Los Angeles at the age of 18.
Davis had joined the Communist Party USA in
Chicago by 1943, at the latest. He was militantly pro-Soviet, writing poems in
praise of both Stalin and the Red Army.
In 1948, Davis and his communist wife moved to Hawaii. According to Davis’s autobiography, he was
recommended to the Hawaiian comrades by secret Communist Party USA
members Paul Robeson and Harry
Bridges of the International Longshoremen’s
and Warehousemen’s Union.
Before going underground in 1950, the
Hawaiian Communist Party was one of the most dynamic in the United States at
the time. The mainland put huge resources into the Hawaiian Communist Party
because the Soviets wanted the U.S. military presence on the islands shut down.
The Hawaiian communists were charged with agitating against the U.S. military
bases at every opportunity.
FBI documents refer to information that
Davis “was observed photographing large sections of the [Hawaii] coastline with
a camera containing a telescopic lens.” The FBI information states: “Informant
stated that DAVIS spent much of his time in this activity. He said this was the
third different occasion DAVIS had been observed photographing shorelines and
beachfronts. Informant advised that it did not appear he was photographing any
particular objects.”
The FBI clearly suspected military
espionage. Davis was placed on the “Security Index,” which meant he was marked
for immediate arrest should war break out between the United States and the
Soviet Union.
Alice Palmer
Long-serving Illinois state Sen. Alice
Palmer provided Obama’s entrée into
electoral politics. Obama was Palmer’s chief of staff when she ran
unsuccessfully for Congress in 1994, then he took over her state Senate seat in
1996.
Palmer was a pro-Soviet propagandist.
In 1983, Palmer traveled to Czechoslovakia
to the Soviet-controlled World Peace Council’s Prague Assembly. At the time,
she served on the executive board of the Communist Party USA-dominated U.S. Peace
Council.
In 1985, Palmer was part of a delegation of
16 African-American journalists to the Soviet Union, East Germany, and
Czechoslovakia. Palmer represented her own Chicago-based “Black Press
Institute,” which was essentially a vehicle for disseminating Soviet propaganda
to America’s black population.
The trip was organized by Don Rojas, then executive of the International Organization of Journalists (IOJ),
in conjunction with the Black Press Institute, the National Alliance of Black
Journalists, and the National Newspaper Publishers Association—the United
States’ largest organization of owners of black newspapers.
American-educated Rojas was the former
press secretary to Grenada’s late communist leader, Maurice Bishop.
Palmer told the Communist Party USA’s
People’s Daily World:
“The trip was extraordinary because we were
able to sit down with our counterparts and with the seats of power in three
major capitals—Prague, Berlin and Moscow. We visited with foreign ministers, we
talked with the editors of the major newspapers in these three cities. …
“It was a very unusual trip because we were
given access. … Every effort was made to give us as much as we asked for. … We
came back feeling that we could speak very well about the interest of the
socialist countries in promoting peace.”
In March 1986, Palmer covered the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) Congress in Moscow for the Black Press
Institute.
In June 1986, the People’s Daily World
published a Black Press Institute article by Palmer on the CPSU conference,
entitled “An Afro-American Journalist in the USSR.” The article praised Soviet
“central planning” and included such statements as:
“We Americans can be misled by the major
media. We’re being told the Soviets are striving to achieve a comparatively low
standard of living compared with ours, but actually they have reached a basic
stability in meeting their needs and are now planning to double their
production.”
Palmer was elected IOJ vice president for
North America at the organization’s 10th Congress, held from Oct. 20–23, 1986,
in Prague. She also traveled to the Soviet Union and Bulgaria during the same
trip. Palmer’s duties were to include coordinating the activities of IOJ
chapters in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
The IOJ was a Soviet front operation based
in Prague, until its expulsion by the Czech government in 1995.
David Axelrod
A longtime friend of Obama, David
Axelrod, led Obama’s 2008 and 2012 election
campaigns and served as a senior adviser to the president.
In the 1940s, Axelrod’s mother, Myril
Axelrod, wrote for the left-leaning New York
magazine “PM.” Though not officially a communist publication, several Communist
Party USA members worked on the paper.
PM’s Washington correspondent, I.F.
Stone, was later identified as a Communist Party
USA member and a Soviet intelligence agent.
One of PM’s writers, Earl Conrad, also
wrote for the leftist magazine Negro Story, as did Obama’s mentor, Frank
Marshall Davis.
While studying in Chicago, Axelrod was
mentored by longtime Chicago journalist and activist David
Canter.
Canter spent his childhood in the Soviet
Union where his father, Harry Canter, former secretary of the Boston Communist
Party, translated Lenin’s works from Russian into English. This work earned
Harry Canter an audience with Stalin in 1932. After World War II, Harry Canter
settled his family in Chicago, where he took over a radical paper called the
Chicago Star—for sale because its owner, Frank Marshall Davis, was moving to
Hawaii.
David Canter joined the Communist Party USA
and would later become an associate of Obama.
By 1960, David Canter had teamed up with
well-known Chicago Communist Party USA member LeRoy
Wolins. The duo owned a company called
Translation World Publishers, which specialized in publications from and about
the Soviet Union. The company soon attracted the attention of the House
Un-American Activities Committee, which suspected Canter and Wolins of being
conduits for Soviet propaganda.
In a report prepared by the House Committee
on Un-American Activities in May and July 1962, entitled “Communist Outlets for
the Distribution of Soviet Propaganda in the United States,” David Canter was
heavily quizzed about payments his company received from the Soviet Union.
After the U.S. government demanded that
Translation World Publishers register as the agent of a foreign power, Canter
de-registered the company.
The committee went on to find that:
“Translation World Publishers was an outlet
for the distribution of Soviet propaganda … this publishing house was
subsidized by Soviet funds and was created by known Communists to serve the
propaganda interests of the U.S.S.R.”
In 1963/64, the Soviet Union actively tried
to undermine Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, in favor of
Democrat Lyndon Johnson.
In their 1989 book, “The KGB Against the
Main Enemy—How the Soviet Intelligence Service Operates Against the United
States,” the United States’ premier communist researcher, Herbert Romerstein,
and former KGB officer Stanislav Levchenko examined Soviet attempts to blacken
Goldwater’s name and other Soviet campaigns of the time:
“The false charge that Goldwater was a
racist was only one of the smear campaigns used against his candidacy by the
Soviets and their surrogates. The American Communists covertly assisted in this
‘active measures’ campaign.
“A 1963 booklet claimed that Goldwater was
conspiring with the John Birch Society to organize a ‘putsch,’ or violent
insurrection, to take over the United States in 1964. The booklet, ‘Birch
Putsch Plans for 1964,’ contained no address for the publisher, Domino
Publications. The author used the not-very imaginative pseudonym, ‘John Smith,
as told to Stanhope T. McReady.’ There was nothing to tie this publication to
the communists until an ad for the book appeared in the pro-communist National
Guardian for April 25, 1963, listing the publisher as ‘Domino Publications,
Suite 900, 22 West Madison Street, Chicago, Illinois.’
“This was in fact the address of
Translation World Publishers, which was registered under the Foreign Agents
Registration Act as an agent of the Soviet Union. The co-owners, LeRoy Wolins
and David S. Canter, were identified by the House Committee on Un-American
Activities as members of the Communist Party USA.”
Axelrod’s mentor was a Soviet-funded
professional “black propagandist.” Axelrod used similar smear tactics to help
Obama win a U.S. Senate seat in 2006 and the presidency in 2008 and 2012.
Valerie Jarrett
The “other half of Obama’s brain,” Valerie
Jarrett was a longtime Obama family friend
and the president’s closest adviser through his entire eight years in the White
House.
FBI documents show that Jarrett’s
maternal grandfather, Chicago businessman and Housing Authority Chairman Robert
Taylor, was “in contact” with alleged Soviet
spy Alfred Stern “on a number of
occasions.” At one point, the pair were actually in business together. Under
investigation by the FBI, Stern fled the country in the late 1950s through
Mexico to the Soviet Union before settling in Czechoslovakia.
FBI files also reveal, “Bowman was also a
member of a Communist-sympathizing group called the Association of Internes and
Medical Students,” according to Judicial Watch.
Another document in the files was a note
from J. Edgar Hoover to FBI officials in Denver instructing them to investigate
“James Edward Bowman” for his connections to other suspects.
The Judicial Watch report explained,
“According to Bowman’s government file, the Association of Internes and Medical
Students is an organization that ‘has long been a faithful follower of the
Communist Party line’ and engages in un-American activities. Bowman was born in
Washington, D.C., and had deep ties to Chicago, where he often collaborated
with fellow Communists.”
Jarrett’s father-in-law, prominent Chicago
journalist Vernon Jarrett, was a leader of the
Communist Party USA youth wing, American Youth for Democracy, in 1946.
In early 1948, the communist-controlled
Packinghouse Workers went on strike in Chicago. Vernon Jarrett served on the
publicity committee of the communist-run “Citizens’ Committee to Aid
Packing-House Workers,” alongside none other than fellow journalist and comrade
Frank Marshall Davis.
Vernon Jarrett was also a fan of Obama. He
watched his career from its early stages and became an influential supporter.
In 1992, Obama worked for the ACORN
offshoot Project Vote to register black voters in aid of the Senate campaign
of Carol Moseley Braun, who also had
strong Communist Party USA ties.
Obama helped Moseley Braun win her Senate
seat, then took it over himself in 2004, backed by the same communist/socialist
alliance that had backed Moseley Braun.
Commenting on the 1992 race, Vernon Jarrett
wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on Aug. 11, 1992:
“Good news! Good news! Project Vote, a
collectivity of 10 church-based community organizations dedicated to black
voter registration, is off and running. Project Vote is increasing its rolls at
a 7,000-per-week clip. … If Project Vote is to reach its goal of registering
150,000 out of an estimated 400,000 unregistered blacks statewide, ‘it must
average 10,000 rather than 7,000 every week,’ says Barack Obama, the program’s
executive director.”
Council for a Livable
World
Established in 1962 by former Hungarian
communist sympathizer and alleged Soviet spy Leo
Szilard, the Washington-based Council
for a Livable World (CLW) has done huge damage to the
U.S. military—all to the benefit of Moscow.
The CLW’s modus operandi is to fund leftist
senators and congressmembers, then lobby them hard for defense cuts and disadvantageous
arms reduction treaties with the Soviet Union/Russia.
The CLW claims to have had an early
influence on both Obama and his vice president, Joe Biden.
“Council for a Liveable World has a history
of helping to elect new candidates who can make a difference in the Senate,
such as a little-known state senator from Illinois named Barack Obama and a
29-year-old Joe Biden in his first statewide contest,” the CLW wrote in 2012.
The CLW helped fund Obama’s 2004 U.S.
Senate race. Obama has also been pictured (circa mid-1990s) alongside longtime
CLW leader Massachusetts-based socialist Jerome
Grossman.
CLW Executive Director John Isaacs wrote in Grossman’s eulogy: “Now, as
an aside, we have a dictum at Council for a Livable World. If we support a
candidate in his or her first major political contest, he or she will always
remember who was with them at the beginning. That has been true with such
political figures—(he says modestly)—as President Barack Obama and Vice
President Joseph Biden.”
In October 2007, the CLW praised Sen. Obama “for his pledge to pursue
a world without nuclear weapons and to improve U.S.–Russian relations.”
At a speech at DePaul University,
Obama stated: “Here’s what I’ll say as president:
America seeks a world in which there are no nuclear weapons. … We’ll work with
Russia to take U.S. and Russian ballistic missiles off hair-trigger alert, and
to dramatically reduce the stockpiles of our nuclear weapons and material.”
As the Soviet Union/Russia has cheated on
every single arms-reduction treaty with the United States, Obama was
effectively proposing unilateral U.S. disarmament.
Former Sen. Gary Hart, then chairman of the
CLW, applauded Obama’s pledge.
“By placing the issue of the elimination of
nuclear arsenals at the center of his foreign policy, Sen. Barack Obama has
performed a great public service and deserves attention and respect from all
those who see this issue as crucial to our times and who have been watching and
waiting for strong leadership and courage,” Hart said in a statement.
In June 2013, President Obama used a speech
in Berlin to outline plans for further reductions in the U.S. nuclear arsenal
“if Russia agrees to pare back its weapons at the same time.”
“Resuming a drive toward disarmament that
he had largely shunted aside over the past two years, Mr. Obama will propose
trimming the number of strategic warheads that each of the two big nuclear
powers still maintains by up to a third, taking them below the 1,550 permitted
in the treaty he signed with Russia in his first term, a senior administration
official said. That would leave each country with just over 1,000 weapons.
“Mr. Obama will also declare that he will
work with NATO allies to develop proposals for major cuts in tactical nuclear weapons,
which are not covered by the existing treaty. Russia, which has far more
tactical nuclear weapons deployed than the United States and Europe do, has
firmly resisted such cuts. There are fears that its tactical weapons are in
parts of Russia where they risk being seized by terrorist groups.
“Mr. Obama will also announce that he will
host a final nuclear security summit meeting in the United States just before
he leaves office. …
“’The most important thing he could do is
lay out the broad agenda for the next three and a half years,’ said John
Isaacs, executive director of the Council for a Livable World, an advocacy
group.
“In addition to further reductions, Mr.
Isaacs said, there are several policy changes Mr. Obama could take that would
move the country further away from cold war-style national security. He said
the president could take nuclear weapons off high alert and change nuclear
doctrine to say that the only purpose of such weapons would be as a deterrent.”
Under the Obama administration, while
America disarmed, Moscow pulled well ahead of the United States in virtually
every realm of nuclear and conventional weaponry.
The situation has gotten so bad that
President Donald Trump had to unilaterally withdraw from the Intermediate-Range
Nuclear Forces Treaty (which Russia has continually cheated on) in order to
give the U.S. military some chance of catching up to Moscow.
How Many Russian Agents Do
You Know?
Most Americans don’t personally know any
Russian agents. Most Americans aren’t surrounded by friends and advisers who
know Russian agents.
Obama has been surrounded by pro-Moscow
communists and probable Soviet agents his entire life. Several of his political
enablers also have Soviet/Russian connections.
How unlucky can one guy get?
Obama’s economic, social, and military
policies damaged the United States in a myriad of ways. Many of his military
and foreign policies also directly or indirectly benefited Moscow.
Despite a lifetime of radical associations,
Obama never had to undergo any form of a security background check to serve in
the Illinois State Senate, U.S. Senate, or the White House. It’s highly
unlikely he could have passed a security check to drive a school bus, let alone
serve as the leader of the Free World.
Imagine what a two-year,
multimillion-dollar, taxpayer-funded investigation into Obama’s Russian ties
might uncover.
If Obama was a fully recruited agent of Moscow,
tasked with giving Russia a significant military advantage over the United
States, and economically weakening and socially dividing the nation, how would
he have conducted his presidency (or his post-presidency) any differently?
Trevor Loudon is an author, filmmaker, and
public speaker from New Zealand. For more than 30 years, he has researched
radical left, Marxist, and terrorist movements and their covert influence on
mainstream politics.
Democrats Allow Communists
to Infiltrate Their Party Across the Nation
Commentary
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) is
infiltrating the Democratic
Partyacross the country. Communists, some openly,
some secretly, are working in Democratic campaigns, holding Democratic Party
leadership positions, and even running for public office on the Democratic
Party ballot line.
They also are pushing their policies inside
the Democratic Party, to the point where it’s almost impossible to distinguish
between the CPUSA and Democratic Party programs. Many comrades work closely
with influential congressmembers or U.S. senators.
The CPUSA supports China, Cuba, Venezuela, and
the Russian Communist Party—all enemies of the United States. The CPUSA
still advocates for the “overthrow of the
capitalist class” in the United States, yet the Democrats do absolutely zilch
to keep the communists out of their party.
CPUSA infiltration of the Democratic Party is
widespread—it affects every region where the communists have a significant
presence.
Support and
Infiltration
In the San Diego area, two CPUSA
members, Carl Wood and Emiliana
Sparaco, recently ran for the California Democratic
Party Central Committee, from Assembly Districts 76 and 80, respectively.
Wood, a lifelong communist, intended to push for the “Healthy California Act that provides improved Medicare
for All, a Living Wage of at least $15/hour, the Green New Deal for a healthy
environment with good new jobs in a peace economy, and legislation to promote
strong Unions.” In 1999, California’s then-Democratic Gov. Gray
Davis appointed Wood to a six-year term on the California Public Utilities
Commission, where he “played a significant role in protecting California from
the consequences of its disastrous deregulation experiment.”
Sparaco, a former leader of the Young
Communist League, traveled to Sochi, Russia, in October 2017, as part of a U.S.
communist delegation to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik
Revolution—keynoted by Vladimir Putin himself. In 2018, Sparaco was a leading
activist in Flip the 49th, which helped Democrat Mike Levin win California’s
49th Congressional District.
In Northern California, Sacramento area
Democratic Rep. Ami Bera, who serves on the House Foreign Relations
Committee, has won several super-close elections with communist help. For
example, in 2014, CPUSA members Juan Lopez, Cassie Lopez, Michelle Kern, Nell
Ranta, and Mik Diddams canvassed and phone-banked out of Bera’s campaign
headquarters.
Further up the left coast in rural Washington
state, communists Tim and Joyce Wheeler and Tim’s sister Marion “Honeybee”
Wheeler Burns have been active in the Clallam County Democrats for decades.
They campaignedfor Barack Obama, U.S. Sen.
Patty Murray, and local Rep. Derek Kilmer. Timtraveled to international communist gatherings for many years as
editor of the CPUSA’s People’s World. His father, Don
Wheeler, betrayed American secrets to Moscow during
World War II while working for U.S. intelligence.
Over in Minnesota, local CPUSA leaders the
late Doris and Erwin Marquitwere very active inside the
Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (Minnesota’s Democratic Party affiliate). The
couple helped raise funds for congressional
aspirant Keith Ellison in their home three
times. In 2006, they used their political influence to help get Ellison elected
to Congress.
Another Minnesota communist, Mark
Froemke, is very active in the
Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Froemke has enjoyed good relations with former
Minnesota Sen. Al Franken and former Gov. Mark Dayton.
Swinging down to Chicago, we see CPUSA members
such as Pepe Lozanoworking in the successful Chuy Garcia for Congress campaign.
CPUSA member Abdul-Aziz Hassan has worked for 22nd
Ward Alderman Ricardo Munoz, a Democrat, for several years. Even CPUSA
leader John Bachtellonce served as a precinct
chairman for U.S. Senate candidate Obama.
In Ohio, former CPUSA chairman Rick Nagin worked inside the Democratic Party for decades. In 2006,
Nagin was on the staff of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial
Organizations 2006 campaign that first elected Sherrod Brown. Nagin also worked
closely with Rep. Dennis Kucinich for many years. Nagin has run several times
for public office on the Democratic Party ticket and served as the
Democratic Leader in Cleveland Ward 14 and on the Cuyahoga County Democratic
Party Executive Committee.
In St. Louis, the CPUSA has worked closely
with many black Democratic candidates through its front group the Coalition of
Black Trade Unionists. Longtime CPUSA member Glenn
Burleigh is very active in the Democratic Party
and has managed several Democratic campaigns, including Robin Wright-Jones for
State Senate and Lewis Reed for St. Louis mayor. Missouri CPUSA leader Tony
Pecinovsky will be standing for St. Louis Alderman
in 2020, presumably as a Democrat.
Over in New York City, the communists have
been working inside the Democratic Party since at least the 1930s.
Former communist Dan
Margolis was active in New York City elections,
including as the mid-Staten Island coordinator for the 2004 Democratic Party
congressional campaign.
According to Margolis’s blog: “I ended up working on many Democratic
campaigns during by time in the CPUSA: John Kerry’s, Obama’s twice, [Senator]
Kirsten Gillibrand’s, Fernando Ferrer’s (he nearly beat Michael Bloomberg to
become mayor of NYC), and a host of others known mostly to NYC residents. I am
proud to say that I wrote the first official document in the CPUSA calling for
support of Obama in the primaries: I wrote this as chair of the party in Brooklyn,
in 2007.”
In 2014, the CPUSA’s Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Club wrote: “Sometimes, we must be free to disagree with
Democrats on selected issues, even those whom we have supported, such as Obama
on a national level, Jerrold Nadler, a progressive congressman from Manhattan,
and Bill DeBlasio, who is New York City’s new progressive mayor. For example,
we should be free to advocate a general reduction of our country’s military and
to disagree with the Obama Administration’s expansion of some sections of our
military forces.”
Across the river in New Jersey, communists
such as Estevan Nembhard and Carol Widom were active in Democrat Ras Baraka’s successful 2014 campaign for the mayoralty of Newark. Baraka is
the son of one-time CPUSA member Amina Baraka.
Connecticut is the CPUSA’s “jewel in the
crown.” The party almost runs the state. The CPUSA is close to Gov. Ned Lamont, as it was to his predecessor Dannel
Malloy. Both U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Sen.
Chris Murphy are close to the party. Sen. Murphy employed CPUSA member Max
Goldman as an aide for nearly three years, while serving on the highly
sensitive Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Rep. Rosa
DeLauro is very close to CPUSA Connecticut
leader Joelle Fishman and her husband Art Perlo—the son of Roosevelt-era Soviet
spy ring leader Victor Perlo. In 2012, DeLauro helped organize birthday
celebrations for veteran Connecticut communist Al
Marder. Comrade Marder is so well regarded in
international communist circles that he was invited to Moscow in June 2015 to
help the Russian Communist Party celebrate the anniversary of the Soviet defeat
of Nazi Germany. Marder even got a big hug from then-Russian Communist Party leader
Gennady Zyuganov.
Three other Connecticut congressmembers, Jim Himes (House Intelligence Committee), Joe
Courtney (House Armed Services Committee),
and John B. Larson work closely with the
CPUSA front group Connecticut Alliance for Retired Americans. Even freshman
Rep. Jahana Hayes had veteran communist Len
Yannielli working in her campaign office.
Down in Texas, the situation is not much
better. In Dallas, local communist leader Gene Lantz is very active in the Democratic Party and the Texas Alliance
for Retired Americans. Lantz is close to Rep. Eddie
Bernice Johnson(House Committee on Science, Space, and
Technology) and is friends with Rep. Marc
Veasey (House Armed Services Committee).
In Houston, local CPUSA leader Bernard
Sampson doubles as a Democratic Party precinct
chairman. The Houston CPUSA ran several comrades for public office in 2018 on
the Democratic ticket (it’s illegal to run for office as a communist in Texas).
Comrade Ali
Khorasani ran for Congress in Texas District 2 but
was defeated in the primary. Communist Penny Shaw ran for a seat on the Harris County Commission but lost with
45 percent of the vote. Party member Sema
Hernandez ran a shoestring campaign in the Texas
U.S. Senate primary and managed to secure a respectable 250,000 votes.
And this is just the open or easily
identifiable members. As a conspiratorial revolutionary organization, the CPUSA
keeps much of its membership secret. The CPUSA almost certainly has many secret
members and supporters in key positions throughout the Democratic Party.
Opposition
Millions of grassroots Democrat voters are
strongly opposed to communism. Many are descendants of families who fled
communism in Eastern Europe, China, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Cuba. Many lost
friends or family fighting communism in Vietnam. Many are Catholic, informed of
the evils from communism at an early age by their priests, bishops, and popes.
Most would be horrified to know that
communists are working openly and secretly at every level of their cherished
Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party knows the identities
of most of its communist members. The Democrats do more than turn a blind eye;
they welcome the revolutionaries into their party.
The Democrats have spent the last two years
bashing President Donald Trump for having ties to Russia. Yet the Democrats are
willing to tolerate pro-China communists actively working within their own
party.
By allowing communists to stand for office on
their ticket, Democrats are cheating the American voter. By allowing communists
to work closely with Democratic congressmembers and senators, they are
endangering national security.
Trevor Loudon is an author, filmmaker, and
public speaker from New Zealand. For more than 30 years, he has researched
radical left, Marxist, and terrorist movements and their covert influence on
mainstream politics.
Views expressed in this article are the
opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch
Times.
OPERATION OBOMB:
DESTABILIZE AMERICA TO LAY
GROUNDS FOR A MUSLIM-STYLE DICTATORSHIP
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/seth-barron-obama-and-building-of.html
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“Obama’s new home in Washington has been described as the “nerve
center” of the anti-Trump opposition. Former attorney general Eric Holder
has said that Obama is “ready to roll” and has aligned himself with
the “resistance.” Former high-level Obama campaign staffers now work with
a variety of groups organizing direct action against
Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance School,” for example, features
lectures by former campaign executive Sara El-Amine, author of
the Obama Organizing.”
BARACK OBAMA: Was he America’s first closet
Communist president?
Obama choose Communists and Marxists for the
highest, most powerful positions in our land, including his closest political
advisors, and his head of the CIA. These facts are not in dispute.
Most are openly admitted by the people in question, as necessary damage
control. Our press chooses not to report them.
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Professor Paul Kengor has extensively
researched the Chicago communists whose progeny include David Axelrod, Valerie
Jarrett, and Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist
Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into power.
WAS THE RUSSIAN HOAX ONLY OBAMA’S ATTEMPT TO
PUT ASIDE TRUMP FOR AN OBAMA THIRD TERM FOR LIFE???
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They Destroyed Our Country
“They knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet
they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to happen; yet
they made him president, to the great injury of America and the world. They
understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made
him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)”
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These people were engaged in a massive
political conspiracy. The Democrats made a decision from the outset—beginning
with the election campaign of the favored candidate of Wall Street and the CIA,
Hillary Clinton—that they would not oppose Trump on his anti-working-class
social policy or his authoritarian hostility to democratic rights and promotion
of anti-immigrant racism, but on issues of imperialist foreign policy.
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“Obama’s new home in Washington has been described as the
“nerve center” of the anti-Trump opposition. Former attorney general Eric
Holder has said that Obama is “ready to roll” and has aligned himself
with the “resistance.” Former high-level Obama campaign staffers now work
with a variety of groups organizing direct action against
Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance School,” for example, features
lectures by former campaign executive Sara El-Amine, author of
the Obama Organizing.”
Barack Obama’s plot for a third term for
life
A Muslim dictatorship like his crony
paymasters, the 9-11 invading Saudis who have financed him for decades.
“Obama has the totalitarian impulse. After
all, he went around saying he didn't have Constitutional authority to legalize
the illegals, and then he tried anyway. The courts stopped him.”
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What was Obama’s motive?
Simple, he knew if he did that for Hillary, he’d own the next President of the
United States, and could blackmail her with the truth till the end of time. It
literally would have given him a 3rd and 4th term.
THE OBAMA – CLINTON RUSSIAN
CONNECTION
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WITH THESE TRAITORS, JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY!
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How President Barack Obama
and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aided Russia’s quest for global nuclear
dominance.
Obama Appointees in the Communist Orbit
“I’d
moved from Communist to whatever I am now. I’m not even sure how to
characterize myself politically. Maybe at some point, I’ll have to figure it
out.”
It’s hard to pin too much on that
quote. Perhaps Comey was joking by calling his vote for Jimmy Carter a vote for
a Communist, in mockery of his supposedly fellow Republicans.
Joking about support for Communism is
not all that funny in the Obama administration. Obama’s CIA Director John
Brennan actually did vote for a Communist presidential candidate. Brennan
and Comey are two of the central players in the Russia Collusion Hoax.
Professor Paul Kengor has extensively
researched the Chicago communists whose progeny include David Axelrod, Valerie
Jarrett, and Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist
Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into power.
Brennan
(who was sworn in as CIA director on a draft of the US Constitution,
without the Bill of Rights, instead of a Bible) said that while he had
voted Communist, he wasn't an official member of the Communist Party - and was
relieved that he had been accepted into the CIA.
Barack Hussein Obama
His Kenyan father was
a communist, who met Obama’s mother, a radical leftist, in a Russian language class. Stanley
Dunham, Obama’s white grandfather, chose a notorious member of the Communist
Party to be Obama’s mentor, Frank Marshall Davis.
Obama wrote in his memoir that in
college, he sought out Marxist professors. A Marxist student at
Occidental College, John Drew, confirms that Obama was a revolutionary
Marxist in college. Drew recounts:
Obama…
believed that the economic stresses of the Carter years meant revolution was
still imminent. The election of Reagan was simply a minor set-back …As I
recall, Obama repeatedly used the phrase "When the revolution
comes...." …"There's going to be a revolution," Obama
said, "we need to be organized and grow the movement." In
Obama's view, our role must be to educate others so that we might usher in more
quickly this inevitable revolution. …Obama seemed to think their ideological
purity was a persuasive argument in predicting that a coming revolution would
end capitalism.
Obama tells us the radical
socialist conferences he attended before law school gave him his road map in life, i.e., their plan to put a stealth
black candidate in the White House. Obama's biggest job and his political
career in Chicago were launched by self-avowed communist Bill Ayers. Obama's run for state representative was
as the hand-picked successor of a socialist state representative, who was
publicly active in communist circles. Obama's
calling in life was work as a hard-left Alinskyite radical agitator.
Until he became president, Obama was a 20-year member of an openly Marxist
church whose members had to take a pledge against the middle class. When
did Obama reject Marxism?
Valerie Jarrett is
Obama’s closest personal advisor to the
present day. She lived with the Obama’s in the White House, had dinner
with them nightly and still lives with them in retirement!
“Her
late father,
James E. Bowman.. was involved with communist front groups and was in contact
with a paid Soviet agent in the 1950s who was wanted for espionage.
Jarrett's maternal grandfather, Robert Rochon Taylor, was investigated by the
FBI for his membership in communist groups and his business relationship with
the same Soviet agent …Her late father-in-law, Vernon D. Jarrett, was assigned
by the Communist Party USA to a special cultural arts cell …he was flagged by
the FBI as an internal security risk to be swiftly arrested in the event of a
hot war with the Soviet Union. The FBI also investigated his wife, Fernetta
"Fern" Jarrett, for communist activities.”
Kengor discusses new documents obtained by
Judicial Watch that show Valerie Jarrett’s father was active on behalf of
Stalin in fomenting racial divisiveness in America, as a member of the American
Committee for Protection of Foreign Born (ACPFB).
ACPFB
“was founded by the Communist Party in order to exploit racial divisions in the
United States for its own revolutionary purposes.” Its modus operandi was to
polarize Americans along racial lines in order to advance the Soviet agenda.”
Axelrod was the Chief Strategist for
Obama’s presidential campaigns, and a Senior Advisor in the White House.
His mother worked for a communist newspaper. His father, according to
Axelrod in his memoir, “listed his party affiliation as ‘Communist.’
Axelrod got his start in Chicago politics through working for hardline
Stalinist Soviet agents Harry and David Canter.
“The
Canters were old hardline pro-Soviet communists, so much so that the senior
Canter, Harry Jacob Canter, was actually brought to Moscow during the height of
the Stalin period to work for the Soviet government as an official translator
of Lenin’s writings. Harry was active in the old Industrial Workers of the
World and had been secretary of the Boston Communist Party. He was not shy
about his political enthusiasm. In 1930, he ran for governor of Massachusetts
on the Communist Party ticket. After that, he sojourned to the Motherland,
taking his entire family to Moscow with him, including his son David, who one
day would come know David Axelrod… the Canters actually knew and worked
with Obama’s old communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis…Davis
— again, Obama’s mentor — also knew and worked with Valerie Jarrett’s
grandfather and father-in-law in Communist Party/left-wing circles in Chicago
in the 1940s.)”
Other Communists, Red Diaper Babies
and Marxists in Obama’s Circle
Susan Rice, Obama’s National Security Advisor, was up to
her eyeballs in the Russia Collusion Hoax
against candidate and then President Trump.
Rice wrote
a 426-page dissertation praising, as “a model and a masterpiece in
the evolution of international peacekeeping,” … the political ascendancy of
Zimbabwe’s Marxist dictator, Robert Mugabe. In her dissertation, Rice
lauded Mugabe as a “pragmatic, intelligent, sensible, gentle, balanced man” who
possessed considerable “patience and restraint.”
David Maraniss, the Washington Post journalist
chosen to write Obama’s biography, which covered up Obama’s radical past, was
also a red diaper baby. He father was a member of the Communist Party and
worked through a cell in Detroit to secretly influence workers through his
articles for the Detroit Times.
Frank Marshall Davis, the biggest influence on Obama’s black identity from age ten
through college years, was a card-carrying member of the Communist party.
“Frank Marshall Davis was
a pro-Soviet, pro–Red China communist. His Communist Party USA card number, revealed
in FBI files, was CP #47544. He was a prototype of the loyal Soviet patriot, so
radical that the FBI placed him on the federal government’s Security Index. In
the early 1950s, Davis opposed U.S. attempts to slow Stalin and Mao. He favored
Red Army takeovers of Central and Eastern Europe, and communist control in
Korea and Vietnam. Dutifully serving the cause, he edited and wrote for
communist newspapers in both Chicago and Honolulu, courting contributors who
were Soviet agents. In the 1970s, amid this dangerous political theater, Frank
Marshall Davis came into Barack Obama’s life.”
Reverend Jeremiah Wright
Obama’s pastor and personal hero and
mentor, was an avowed Marxist. His church congregants had to sign a
pledge to support redistribution of wealth and reject ‘middleclassness.’
Discoverthenetworks reports:
Rev.
Wright’s devotion to the tenets of liberation theology, which is essentially
Marxism dressed up as Christianity. … calls for social activism, class
struggle, and revolution aimed at overturning the existing capitalist order and
installing, in its stead, a socialist utopia where today’s poor will unseat
their “oppressors” and become liberated from their material (and, consequently,
their spiritual) deprivations. An extension of this paradigm is black
liberation theology, which seeks to foment a similar Marxist revolutionary
fervor founded on racial rather than class solidarity.
Is it any surprise that collusion with Russia, according to
Victor David Hanson, was a feature of the Obama presidency?
The Obama administration colluded
with Rusian agents who produced the Steele Dossier. It was paid for by
Clinton, but it was Obama’s minions at the FBI, CIA and White House who
weaponized this soviet disinformation against President Trump.
We are all victims of the
Obama cabal’s collusion with Russia – President Trump’s voters and all
Americans who believe in our free and fair election process.
Democrats Hold a Terrible
Hand of Race Cards
Name
calling is the last refuge for one losing an argument. Much like a roundhouse
punch that hits nothing but air, it’s a final effort in a losing fight. But
it’s also been the one reliable punch for Democrats, playing the race card
against opponents.
Not so much now, however.
Shouting, “You’re a racist!” has been the preferred comeback for Democrats on
the losing side of an argument. Alternatives to the word racist include Nazi,
bigot, fascist, homophobe, sexist, and so on, but racist has the best quick
jab-like sting.
Sometimes name calling can
fall flat, as in calling Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh a sexist or
misogynist, as Democrats did in his confirmation hearings. In reality he is the
first Supreme Court justice to hire an entirely female group of
clerks, something even the “Notorious RBG,” hero of the left, hasn’t done.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the
latest Democrat finding herself holding a bad hand of race cards. Cards dealt
by none other than the de facto Speaker of the House Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Here we all thought Pelosi was the face of liberalism, properly progressive on
everything from abortion and taxes to global warming and immigration.
Yet Pelosi is not woke
enough for “the squad”, four freshmen representatives representing the
communist wing of an already far left Democrat party. I speak of AOC and her
socialist sisters, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and
Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.
Pelosi
has been speaker for six months and Trump is still president, not resigned or
impeached, despite two years of promises from CNN, MSNBC, and many members of
Congress. Pelosi hasn’t passed the Green New Deal, student loan forgiveness, a
70-plus percent top tax rate, reparations for anyone not a white heterosexual
Christian male, or Medicare for all.
Times a wastin’ with the
Democrat House is still searching for evidence that Trump colluded with the
Russians to steal the election from Hillary Clinton. AOC and her squad are
cracking the whip on slow-moving Democrats, drawing the ire of Pelosi and the
ruling Democrat elites.
Unable to accept their
freshman status and the well-established Congressional pecking order, what
better way to light a fire under Pelosi than to call her a racist? Not directly,
as Bernie Sanders did to President Trump, recently calling
him "racist, sexist, homophobe and religious bigot."
AOC played it a little more
subtly saying of Pelosi, "But the persistent singling out ... it
got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful ... the explicit
singling out of newly elected women of color." Just a long-winded way of
calling Pelosi a racist.
This is not a new tactic.
Kamala Harris did the same to Joe Biden at the first Democrat primary debate.
While not calling him a racist directly, she deftly used her previous
experience as a prosecutor to do just that with these words, "I do
not believe you are a racist” but….
What goes around comes around.
The race card is being thrown back in the faces of those who have played it for
decades. The term “racist” has become such a cliché that it no longer carries
any weight or meaning. Like the story of the boy who cried wolf, the public
tunes out accusations of racism as meaningless and childish name calling.
Instead it is now just a
punch to throw your opponent off balance. When policy or economic arguments
fall flat, throw out the race card. No one wants to be accused of racism and
will immediately go into defensive mode against such charges.
Biden, instead of advancing
his agenda and rationale for being the Democrat nominee, whatever that might
be, has had to shift to defense, apologizing for his innocuous
comments about working legislatively with Senate colleagues who also happened
to be segregationists.
How many Democrat Senators
proudly worked with former KKK Grand Cyclops Senator Robert Byrd for decades,
some even calling him their “mentor” as Hillary Clinton did?
Ironically it was President
Trump who came to Nancy Pelosi’s rescue. Speaking to a gaggle of media magpies
Trump said, “I'll tell you something about Nancy Pelosi that you know
better than I do, she is not a racist. OK? She is not a racist. For them to
call her a racist is a disgrace."
That’s statesmanship and
grace, but more likely strategic. It’s being the adult in the room, something
few in Congress, of either party, can claim to be. Trump could have easily
deflected the question, tacitly agreeing with AOC’s accusation.
Will Pelosi return the favor
or publicly acknowledge Trump’s rescue? Doubtful, as politics for Democrats is
a blood sport and they won’t give an inch, even when called for by the rules of
civility.
Trump could have used the
opportunity to remind everyone of the racist history of the Democrat Party,
from Bull Conner, George Wallace, and Robert Byrd, to their opposition of the
Civil Rights Act and support of the KKK.
He could have mentioned how
Democrats are wedded to Planned Parenthood, whose founder said, “We don’t
want the word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.” Or
how Democrat welfare policies have relegated many minority groups to poverty
and dependence. And how Trump’s first two years in office are reversing this.
How’s all that for a bad hand of race cards for Democrats?
Trump is no stranger to the
racism charge. Back when he was a New York City mogul, paling around with Jesse
Jackson and Al Sharpton, supporting Democrat candidates and causes, no one ever
accused him of being a racist.
Yet as soon as he announced
his candidacy for president, promising to “build a wall” and implement many
politically conservative policies, he too became a racist.
On cue, Trump is a racist
again for tweeting that,
“The progressive Congresswomen dubbed the Squad should go back to the ‘corrupt’
and ‘broken and crime infested’ countries from which they came.” The four
ladies of the squad represent three different races, making the “you’re a
racist!” charge against Trump laughable.
Situational racism is a
substitute for logic and debate, just a means of shutting down anyone who you
can’t argue with on the merits. From substantive discussion to name calling, it
is the refuge of cowards and intellectual lightweights.
And in delicious irony it is
boomeranging back on Democrats. Trump, by defending Pelosi, just threw a skunk
into the garden party, keeping this issue in the news. Now each of the Democrat
candidates will have to weigh in on whether the de facto leader of their party
is a racist or not. CNN will hold panel discussions on the topic. Just what
Democrats do not want to be talking about.
Now that “the squad” is
tossing race cards across the room, how soon until Elizabeth Warren and Bernie
Sanders are called racists? What goes around comes around.
Brian C Joondeph, MD, is a
Denver based physician and freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in
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Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.),
Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) speak at a press
conference at the U.S. Capitol on July 15, 2019. (Holly Kellum/NTD)
Marxists Work to Reinforce
‘The Squad’ in 2020
August 19, 2019 Updated: August 19, 2019
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Not content with Reps. Rashida Tlaib,
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley—the far-left congresswomen
collectively known as “The Squad”—the
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and allied Marxist groups are targeting
multiple congressional seats with far-left candidates in 2020.
No one is safe. The DSA and its pro-China
allies, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and Liberation Road (formerly Freedom
Road Socialist Organization, or FRSO), are targeting dozens of seats currently
held by Republicans, moderate Democrats, and even by insufficiently Marxist
members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Most will not make it past the
primaries, but some have at least a reasonable chance of being elected.
Here are four serious far-left contenders
who could be reinforcing “The Squad” in January 2021.
Cori Bush
Cori Bush is targeting Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, which
encompasses St. Louis, Florissant, and Ferguson. Her Democratic primary
opponent is William Lacy Clay Jr., a veteran of both the Congressional
Progressive Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus, who has represented the
district since 2001, succeeding his father William Lacy Clay Sr. In 2018, Bush
stood against Clay Jr., losing by about 20 percentage points.
A native of St. Louis, Bush is a registered
nurse, an ordained pastor, an activist, and a “community organizer.” She first
came to prominence during the Ferguson anti-police protests of 2014, where she
played a significant, if largely covert, role.
During a BlogTalkRadio
show broadcast in August 2015, Bush was
reporting “on the ground” as she described the scene days after “shots rang
out” in Ferguson: “I’m right on the ground. I’m right here in the middle
of it, so there’s chanting behind me. As a matter of fact, I was riding in a
car … circling the neighborhood with flags and with our masks on.”
Prominent in the activist community, Bush
was a recipient of the 2015 “Woman of Courage” Award from the Emmett Till
Legacy Foundation and the 2016 Delux Magazine “Power 100” Award, according to
her website. She was named one of the ‘Top 50 Women of St. Louis” by Gazelle Magazine,
and an “Unsung Human Rights Hero” by the St. Louis Coalition for Human Rights
in 2017. She also received the 2018 “Community Activist” award from the
Missouri Association of Black Ministers. In 2017, she was elected the first
vice-chairperson of the Missouri Democratic Party Progressive Caucus.
District 1 is heavily Democratic, so if
Bush can manage to beat Clay Jr., she will almost certainly win the seat.
Working in her favor is her close
connection to two of Missouri’s most influential Marxist groups: St. Louis DSA
and the local CPUSA. These groups can muster nearly 1,000 activists and have
already elected many local officials, including several state representatives.
Early this year, St. Louis Communist Party leader Tony Pecinovsky (supported by Bush and running as a Democrat) lost a race for St.
Louis Board of Aldermen Ward 14 with a respectable 48 percent of the vote.
Bush is a regular at the local Communist
Party HQ—the St. Louis Workers Educational Society. During her 2018 campaign,
Bush celebrated her birthday at an event in St Louis. Guest speakers included
DSA member Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
In July 2017, Bush joined a Sit-In to Save
Health Care at Republican Sen. Roy Blunt’s office in Clayton, Missouri. Bush
was joined by members of the St. Louis DSA, Socialist Alternative, and the St.
Louis Workers’ Education Society.
Bush already has the endorsement of Justice
Democrats—famous for selecting and electing Ocasio-Cortez in 2016.
Albert Lee
Albert Lee is targeting Oregon’s 3rd Congressional District, which
encompasses all of deep blue Portland. The very safe Democrat district has been
held since 1996 by Earl
Blumenauer, a long-time member of the Congressional
Progressive Caucus. Blumenauer beat his last Republican opponent 73 percent to
20 percent, so if Lee can win the primary, he’s almost guaranteed a seat in
Congress.
Lee is currently the Dean for Business and
Computing at the Sylvania Campus of Portland Community College.
He is active in TriMet’s Transit Equity
Advisory Committee, the City of Portland’s Citizen Review Committee, the
executive board of the Giving Tree NW, Health Care for All Oregon, the NAACP,
Korean American Coalition of Oregon, and the Democratic Party of Oregon. He is
a member of Portland DSA and the DSA front BerniePDX/Our Revolution, and on the
board of directors of the far-left Asian Pacific
American Network of Oregon—all groups with considerable electoral experience.
Currently, Lee is seeking Portland DSA’s
endorsement. If he gets both local and national DSA endorsement, Lee will have
an army of small donors and several hundred free doorknockers and phone-bankers
on his team.
While the incumbent Blumenauer has ties to
some DSA veterans, that may not do him much good. The DSA is likely to throw
the old Jewish white “progressive” under the bus in favor of the young
Korean/black socialist.
Lee is supporting Paige Kreisman in her run for Oregon Assembly District 42. Kreisman is a
self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist and member of both the DSA and CPUSA.
Lee is also supporting Doyle Canning, who is running for Congress in Oregon’s 4th District against
Congressional Progressive Caucus co-founder Peter DeFazio. Canning has long
been associated with FRSO/Liberation Road activists.
Mike Siegel
Mike Siegel is contesting Texas’s 10th Congressional District, which stretches
from just north of Austin almost to Houston, against incumbent Republican
Michael McCaul. In 2018, Siegel lost to McCaul by only four points in what is
normally a safe Republican district, so the second time around, he may be even
more of a threat.
Siegel is an assistant city attorney in
Austin. He has worked as a public school teacher with Teach for America and
co-founded two nonprofit education organizations.
Siegel’s far-left credentials are
impeccable. He’s the son of Oakland, California-based activist/attorney Dan Siegel, once
the West Coast leader of the Communist Workers Party, a group known for its
blind loyalty to China and North Korea.
At Cornell University, Mike Siegel was
president of the far-left National Lawyers Guild student chapter. He also
served as an intern at the equally radical Center for Constitutional Rights,
researching issues such as civil liability for military contractors. He also
worked as legal coordinator for the “Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan”
conference presented by the FRSO front group Iraq Veterans Against the War.
In 2018, Mike Siegel was heavily
supported by several DSA-controlled groups
including Our Revolution–Central Texas, Left Up to US, and Texas Alliance for
Retired Americans. Austin DSA membership coordinator Jacob Aronowitz also served on Mike Siegel’s 2018 staff.
By July 2019, the Siegel campaign had
garnered a number of key national and local endorsements, such as: far-left California congressman Ted Lieu; DSA front
organization Progressive Democrats of America; International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers; National Union of Healthcare Workers; and leftist Mike
Floyd of the Pearland ISD school board.
Austin DSA and neighboring Williamson
County DSA can muster over 1,000 members between them. Austin DSA is currently
supporting one of its own comrades, Heidi Sloan,
against Republican Roger Williams in District 25. However, they will almost
certainly support Siegel as well if they think he has any chance of defeating
McCaul.
Eva Putzova
Eva Putzova is contesting the Democratic primary in Arizona’s District 1,
which encompasses all of the northern and eastern part of the state. Her
opponent is incumbent “moderate” Democrat Tom O’Halleran, who in 2018 defeated
his Republican opponent by about 8 points.
Putzova, a Slovakian immigrant, has been
very active in public life in Flagstaff. She was elected to the Flagstaff City
Council in November 2014 to a four-year term. She also served on the Board of
Directors of Flagstaff Arts Council, the Audit Committee, the Economic
Collaborative of Northern Arizona, and the Northern Arizona Intergovernmental
Public Transportation Authority.
In 2016, she led a successful local citizen
initiative, “raising Flagstaff’s minimum wage to $15 by 2021, implementing one
fair wage by 2026, and establishing local labor standards enforcement,”
according to her former councilmember
bio.
Putzova was also a “board member of Friends
of Flagstaff’s Future—a multi-issue organization that advocates for a socially
and environmentally just Flagstaff.” She has also “contributed to the goals of
local commissions and committees, including the Regional Plan Citizen Advisory
Committee, Coconino Community College Citizen Review Panel, Citizen Review
Commission for Flagstaff Regional Five-Year and Long-Range Transit Plan, and
the Greater Flagstaff Economic Council.”
Currently, Putzova works as the director of
communications for Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, a far-left labor
organization with ties to FRSO/Liberation Road.
For several years, Putzova has been active
in the Flagstaff branch of Progressive Democrats of America, a national
organization closely affiliated with the DSA. The national organization is
supporting Putzova, one of their earliest endorsements of the 2020 election cycle. She is also close to Our
Revolution—Flagstaff Progressives, which on a national scale is also heavily
dominated by DSA members.
Putzova is also very close to Flagstaff
DSA, which will likely support her in her
upcoming battles with O’Halleran and any Republican challenger.
We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
While many U.S. voters have been shocked by
the antics of “The Squad” and the Democrats’ increasingly obvious shift to the
hard left—we ain’t seen nothing yet.
The Democrats have been edging left since
the 1960s. The socialist shift accelerated dramatically under President Barack
Obama and went into overdrive with the Bernie Sanders campaign of 2016.
Currently, the DSA, CPUSA, and
FRSO/Liberation Road are contesting for ground in the Democratic Party at every
level, from county commissions and education boards to the House of
Representatives and even the U.S. Senate. It’s only a matter of time until they
completely dominate a once-great political party.
Whether Bush, Lee, Siegel, and Putzova win
or not in 2020 is largely immaterial. There are hundreds more like them
standing in line, waiting for their shot.
The Trump administration and the Republican
Party are right to campaign against socialism and communism in 2020. Only by
waking up millions of U.S. voters to the imminent Marxist threat can we have
any hope of saving this great republic.
Trevor Loudon is an author, filmmaker, and
public speaker from New Zealand. For more than 30 years, he has researched
radical left, Marxist, and terrorist movements and their covert influence on
mainstream politics.
Views expressed in this article are the
opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch
Times.
Marxists Work to Reinforce
‘The Squad’ in 2020
August 19, 2019 Updated: August 19, 2019
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Not content with Reps. Rashida Tlaib,
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley—the far-left congresswomen
collectively known as “The Squad”—the
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and allied Marxist groups are targeting
multiple congressional seats with far-left candidates in 2020.
No one is safe. The DSA and its pro-China
allies, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and Liberation Road (formerly Freedom
Road Socialist Organization, or FRSO), are targeting dozens of seats currently
held by Republicans, moderate Democrats, and even by insufficiently Marxist
members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Most will not make it past the
primaries, but some have at least a reasonable chance of being elected.
Here are four serious far-left contenders
who could be reinforcing “The Squad” in January 2021.
Cori Bush
Cori Bush is targeting Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, which
encompasses St. Louis, Florissant, and Ferguson. Her Democratic primary
opponent is William Lacy Clay Jr., a veteran of both the Congressional
Progressive Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus, who has represented the
district since 2001, succeeding his father William Lacy Clay Sr. In 2018, Bush
stood against Clay Jr., losing by about 20 percentage points.
A native of St. Louis, Bush is a registered
nurse, an ordained pastor, an activist, and a “community organizer.” She first
came to prominence during the Ferguson anti-police protests of 2014, where she
played a significant, if largely covert, role.
During a BlogTalkRadio
show broadcast in August 2015, Bush was
reporting “on the ground” as she described the scene days after “shots rang
out” in Ferguson: “I’m right on the ground. I’m right here in the middle
of it, so there’s chanting behind me. As a matter of fact, I was riding in a
car … circling the neighborhood with flags and with our masks on.”
Prominent in the activist community, Bush
was a recipient of the 2015 “Woman of Courage” Award from the Emmett Till
Legacy Foundation and the 2016 Delux Magazine “Power 100” Award, according to
her website. She was named one of the ‘Top 50 Women of St. Louis” by Gazelle
Magazine, and an “Unsung Human Rights Hero” by the St. Louis Coalition for
Human Rights in 2017. She also received the 2018 “Community Activist” award
from the Missouri Association of Black Ministers. In 2017, she was elected the
first vice-chairperson of the Missouri Democratic Party Progressive Caucus.
District 1 is heavily Democratic, so if
Bush can manage to beat Clay Jr., she will almost certainly win the seat.
Working in her favor is her close
connection to two of Missouri’s most influential Marxist groups: St. Louis DSA
and the local CPUSA. These groups can muster nearly 1,000 activists and have
already elected many local officials, including several state representatives.
Early this year, St. Louis Communist Party leader Tony Pecinovsky (supported by Bush and running as a Democrat) lost a race for St.
Louis Board of Aldermen Ward 14 with a respectable 48 percent of the vote.
Bush is a regular at the local Communist
Party HQ—the St. Louis Workers Educational Society. During her 2018 campaign,
Bush celebrated her birthday at an event in St Louis. Guest speakers included
DSA member Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
In July 2017, Bush joined a Sit-In to Save
Health Care at Republican Sen. Roy Blunt’s office in Clayton, Missouri. Bush
was joined by members of the St. Louis DSA, Socialist Alternative, and the St.
Louis Workers’ Education Society.
Bush already has the endorsement of Justice
Democrats—famous for selecting and electing Ocasio-Cortez in 2016.
Albert Lee
Albert Lee is targeting Oregon’s 3rd Congressional District, which
encompasses all of deep blue Portland. The very safe Democrat district has been
held since 1996 by Earl
Blumenauer, a long-time member of the Congressional
Progressive Caucus. Blumenauer beat his last Republican opponent 73 percent to
20 percent, so if Lee can win the primary, he’s almost guaranteed a seat in
Congress.
Lee is currently the Dean for Business and
Computing at the Sylvania Campus of Portland Community College.
He is active in TriMet’s Transit Equity
Advisory Committee, the City of Portland’s Citizen Review Committee, the executive
board of the Giving Tree NW, Health Care for All Oregon, the NAACP, Korean
American Coalition of Oregon, and the Democratic Party of Oregon. He is a
member of Portland DSA and the DSA front BerniePDX/Our Revolution, and on the
board of directors of the far-left Asian Pacific
American Network of Oregon—all groups with considerable electoral experience.
Currently, Lee is seeking Portland DSA’s
endorsement. If he gets both local and national DSA endorsement, Lee will have
an army of small donors and several hundred free doorknockers and phone-bankers
on his team.
While the incumbent Blumenauer has ties to
some DSA veterans, that may not do him much good. The DSA is likely to throw
the old Jewish white “progressive” under the bus in favor of the young
Korean/black socialist.
Lee is supporting Paige Kreisman in her run for Oregon Assembly District 42. Kreisman is a
self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist and member of both the DSA and CPUSA.
Lee is also supporting Doyle Canning, who is running for Congress in Oregon’s 4th District against
Congressional Progressive Caucus co-founder Peter DeFazio. Canning has long
been associated with FRSO/Liberation Road activists.
Mike Siegel
Mike Siegel is contesting Texas’s 10th Congressional District, which stretches
from just north of Austin almost to Houston, against incumbent Republican
Michael McCaul. In 2018, Siegel lost to McCaul by only four points in what is
normally a safe Republican district, so the second time around, he may be even
more of a threat.
Siegel is an assistant city attorney in
Austin. He has worked as a public school teacher with Teach for America and
co-founded two nonprofit education organizations.
Siegel’s far-left credentials are
impeccable. He’s the son of Oakland, California-based activist/attorney Dan Siegel, once
the West Coast leader of the Communist Workers Party, a group known for its
blind loyalty to China and North Korea.
At Cornell University, Mike Siegel was
president of the far-left National Lawyers Guild student chapter. He also
served as an intern at the equally radical Center for Constitutional Rights,
researching issues such as civil liability for military contractors. He also
worked as legal coordinator for the “Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan”
conference presented by the FRSO front group Iraq Veterans Against the War.
In 2018, Mike Siegel was heavily
supported by several DSA-controlled groups
including Our Revolution–Central Texas, Left Up to US, and Texas Alliance for
Retired Americans. Austin DSA membership coordinator Jacob Aronowitz also served on Mike Siegel’s 2018 staff.
By July 2019, the Siegel campaign had
garnered a number of key national and local endorsements, such as: far-left California congressman Ted Lieu; DSA front organization
Progressive Democrats of America; International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers; National Union of Healthcare Workers; and leftist Mike Floyd of the
Pearland ISD school board.
Austin DSA and neighboring Williamson
County DSA can muster over 1,000 members between them. Austin DSA is currently
supporting one of its own comrades, Heidi Sloan,
against Republican Roger Williams in District 25. However, they will almost
certainly support Siegel as well if they think he has any chance of defeating
McCaul.
Eva Putzova
Eva Putzova is contesting the Democratic primary in Arizona’s District 1,
which encompasses all of the northern and eastern part of the state. Her
opponent is incumbent “moderate” Democrat Tom O’Halleran, who in 2018 defeated
his Republican opponent by about 8 points.
Putzova, a Slovakian immigrant, has been
very active in public life in Flagstaff. She was elected to the Flagstaff City
Council in November 2014 to a four-year term. She also served on the Board of
Directors of Flagstaff Arts Council, the Audit Committee, the Economic
Collaborative of Northern Arizona, and the Northern Arizona Intergovernmental
Public Transportation Authority.
In 2016, she led a successful local citizen
initiative, “raising Flagstaff’s minimum wage to $15 by 2021, implementing one
fair wage by 2026, and establishing local labor standards enforcement,”
according to her former councilmember
bio.
Putzova was also a “board member of Friends
of Flagstaff’s Future—a multi-issue organization that advocates for a socially
and environmentally just Flagstaff.” She has also “contributed to the goals of
local commissions and committees, including the Regional Plan Citizen Advisory
Committee, Coconino Community College Citizen Review Panel, Citizen Review
Commission for Flagstaff Regional Five-Year and Long-Range Transit Plan, and
the Greater Flagstaff Economic Council.”
Currently, Putzova works as the director of
communications for Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, a far-left labor
organization with ties to FRSO/Liberation Road.
For several years, Putzova has been active
in the Flagstaff branch of Progressive Democrats of America, a national
organization closely affiliated with the DSA. The national organization is
supporting Putzova, one of their earliest endorsements of the 2020 election cycle. She is also close to Our
Revolution—Flagstaff Progressives, which on a national scale is also heavily
dominated by DSA members.
Putzova is also very close to Flagstaff
DSA, which will likely support her in her
upcoming battles with O’Halleran and any Republican challenger.
We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
While many U.S. voters have been shocked by
the antics of “The Squad” and the Democrats’ increasingly obvious shift to the
hard left—we ain’t seen nothing yet.
The Democrats have been edging left since
the 1960s. The socialist shift accelerated dramatically under President Barack
Obama and went into overdrive with the Bernie Sanders campaign of 2016.
Currently, the DSA, CPUSA, and
FRSO/Liberation Road are contesting for ground in the Democratic Party at every
level, from county commissions and education boards to the House of
Representatives and even the U.S. Senate. It’s only a matter of time until they
completely dominate a once-great political party.
Whether Bush, Lee, Siegel, and Putzova win
or not in 2020 is largely immaterial. There are hundreds more like them
standing in line, waiting for their shot.
The Trump administration and the Republican
Party are right to campaign against socialism and communism in 2020. Only by
waking up millions of U.S. voters to the imminent Marxist threat can we have
any hope of saving this great republic.
Trevor Loudon is an author, filmmaker, and
public speaker from New Zealand. For more than 30 years, he has researched
radical left, Marxist, and terrorist movements and their covert influence on
mainstream politics.
Views expressed in this article are the
opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch
Times.
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