President Trump made sure to repeat what has become one of his main attacks on Democrats ahead of the fall midterms before leaving a global summit in Turkey dominated by the Iran ceasefire."I want to get the word out because what's forming is communism," Trump said following the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey.Presidential speeches delivered abroad often carry as much weight with audiences back home as they do with foreign leaders.Trump made that clear when he used his news conference to call communism the biggest threat that America has faced since its founding."Communism is easy to sell," Trump added."I would be the greatest communist in history.
I'd be right up there with [former Soviet leader Vladimir] Lenin."It's not a new tactic for this president.During the last election, when struggling to find a memorable attack line against Kamala Harris, Trump eventually landed on "Comrade Kamala."He even shared a fake photo of the then-vice president speaking to a giant crowd bathed in red light and waving communist flags.At the time, when pressed about the personal attacks, Trump defended the strategy – saying he had to run his campaign his own way."I think we're hitting a nerve," Trump said."It's a different kind of race.
All we have to do is define our opponent as being a communist or a socialist or somebody who is going to destroy our country."Politicians have used the term communist as a way to attack political opponents for decades going all the way back to the 1950s.It was during that period when Trump — who just turned 80 years old – grew up."This is in his bones," said Tevi Troy, a presidential historian and former White House aide to George W.Bush.Troy said anti-communism was not only a bipartisan issue, it was also the dominant view in America."And then you add on top of that that his mentor was Roy Cohn.
And Roy Cohn was that lawyer, fixer who helped hunt communists under [former Senator Joe] McCarthy," Troy said."He worked on the McCarthy staff."McCa...