Victories in some Democratic primaries by far-left candidates have given President Donald Trump a new campaign-trail boogeyman amid his low poll numbers: communism.
“It’s becoming a communist party. These are not social ‘Dumocrats,’ these are hardcore, godless communists,” Trump said Friday, using a relatively new derisive nickname for members of the opposition party. “All communists are godless. They don’t believe in God.”
Speaking to a friendly crowd at the annual Faith & Freedom Coalition’s conference in Washington, D.C., he went so far as to declare the far-left candidates’ victories represented “the most serious threat to our country since its existence, in my opinion, 250 years ago — this is a major threat to our country.”
Those Trump remarks came three days after a pair of House Democrats from New York City lost reelection bids to challengers backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, ran on a far-left, affordability platform last year, with three candidates he backed successfully pushing similar policy ideas during their primary campaigns.
