Suddenly, Communists Are Everywhere
National SecuritySuddenly, Communists Are EverywhereThe Trump administration would like you to worry like it’s 1979.By Vivian Salama and Jack Rodriquez-VarsIllustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Chip Somodevilla / Getty; Thinkstock / Getty.August 4, 2026, 7:30 AM ET ShareSave Karl Marx wrote that political actors often borrow the language and symbols of earlier struggles to wage their own battles. “This is a distinctive and unique evil,” he said.
- ▪National SecuritySuddenly, Communists Are EverywhereThe Trump administration would like you to worry like it’s 1979.By Vivian Salama and Jack Rodriquez-VarsIllustration by The Atlantic.
- ▪Sources: Chip Somodevilla / Getty; Thinkstock / Getty.August 4, 2026, 7:30 AM ET ShareSave Karl Marx wrote that political actors often borrow the language and symbols of earlier struggles to wage their own battles.
- ▪“This is a distinctive and unique evil,” he said.
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National SecuritySuddenly, Communists Are EverywhereThe Trump administration would like you to worry like it’s 1979.By Vivian Salama and Jack Rodriquez-VarsIllustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Chip Somodevilla / Getty; Thinkstock / Getty.August 4, 2026, 7:30 AM ET ShareSave Karl Marx wrote that political actors often borrow the language and symbols of earlier struggles to wage their own battles. So perhaps he would have been unsurprised to hear the Trump administration resurrect the political rhetoric of the Cold War fight against Marxism.President Trump, at Wheeler High School in the Atlanta suburbs earlier this summer, mentioned communism or communist 15 times, starting less than a minute into his hour-plus speech: “Communism is the single greatest threat to our country and its…
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