So Republicants think the Commies are here?

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6. Republicans ARE the Red Menace

What was the Red Menace of the Cold War? That a pack of radicals would take power, upend our institutions and way of life, take away our freedoms, diminish us in every way, and treat dissent like it was treason.

They're everything the Commie Boogeyman was supposed to be, without being commies (unless you count "socialism for the rich" ).

Ever read old anticommunist literature? Especially from the first Red Scare a century ago?

There was a lot of explaining how the commies would play by the rules until they were in all the enforcement positions, and then they'd do as they pleased. Same playbook as fascists used in the years afterward.

Same playbook the Conservatives/Right-Wingers have used to get us here.