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August 10, 2026

Hillary: Calling them Communists will Hurt

Tmothy Birdnow

Yesterday I caught a Democrat strategist on one of the cable news shows and he was sayig how calling the DSA people "Communists" was bad and how it was going to cost the Republicans. Yes, we all know how much Democratic strategists worry about Republican political success.

Hillary Clinton Warns Dems: GOP's Anti-Communist Messaging "Very Effective" As Marxist Hijack Party

When Hillary Clinton's instincts are right you know the Dems have a serious problem.

America fought a fifty some-odd year war against Marxism. While many young people may believe the Cold War was a fight over Greenland there are still a lot of people who remember it.

From the Zerohedge article:

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Kara Swisher on the "Pivot" podcast that Republicans are deploying what she called a "very effective" anti-communist attack against the Democratic Party's rising class of far-left candidates, who are increasingly defeating establishment Democrats in primary races.

Clinton told Swisher that Abdul El-Sayed's narrow victory in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary is a wake-up call for the party. She said El-Sayed must unite the party by winning over supporters of moderate Rep. Haley Stevens and reassuring independent voters ahead of his general election contest against Republican Mike Rogers.

"The real fight will be, how do we make sure that people who voted for Haley feel comfortable voting for Abdul El-Sayed, and how do we get independents to feel comfortable," Clinton said.

"It's not just about Michigan, but the Republican messaging is 'communist, socialist.' It's going to be a very effective attack," she warned, adding, "People on the left have to be prepared to answer that and be effective in answering that."

The Clintons, of course, represented the moderate wing of the Democrats and what propelled Bill Clinton to electoral victory was his policy of "triangulation" which was essentially to stake out a position to the right of most Democrats but to the Left of the Republicans. This coupled with his boyish charm and apparent normalcy won the public over (well, sort of; he never won with more than a plurality and wouldn't have won at all had Ross Perot stayed out of the race.) The Clintons were always willing to drop the radical pose to achieve radical ends. Hillary was in fact quite radical (much more so than her husband who mostly was in it for the tail). But even she had the sense (and Hillary always had a political tin-ear) to avoid appearing to be a radical.

Now the Democrats are proudly, defiantly radical and think the American People will elect them. They believe they've already won and no longer have to hide who they really are.

Nancy Pelosi started all this. I remember when she ran for the leadership in the Democrats; she said she wanted to boldly show the "progressive" colors. She did and she started the party moving to the Left, and this is the inevitable result. Now she seems downright conservative next to the lunatic fringe that has become the mainstream of the Democratic Party.

At any rate calling these people out, showing them for what they are, is crucial to winning. "Resist the Devil and he will flee from you" as the Bible says. ""He will destroy them with the sword of His mouth and the brightness of His coming" as the Bible also says, and that means words are weapons and so is light. Satan triumphs in darkness. We have to have the courage to shine light and speak the truth.

We need to remind everyone of the countless murders by Marxists over the last hundred years. Read from The Little Black Book of Communism. Read from The Gulag Archipelago. Remind everybody of just how bad it was. Point to Cuba and Nicaragua and Venezuela now. Then ask if America wants that for our nation.

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1 Yes, name calling in politics is a problem to be worried about. We have become such a petty nation.

Posted by: Bill H at August 10, 2026 09:23 AM (FRG6e)

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