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There's a new trend in American politics: Candidates affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America, some of whom have at least expressed affinity for communism, are winning Democratic congressional primaries.
In the wake of these victories, President Trump has started another new trend. He's used a variant of the C-word—communism—81 times in recent weeks, according to a new Reuters finding that has gotten a lot attention, most of it critical. The Daily Beast dismissed the use of communist-bashing as "a tactic frequently used by former Republican presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan during the Cold War." Both of those presidents were indeed well-known critics of communism. But anticommunism was a multidecade, bipartisan presidential staple...