{"id":76564,"date":"2026-07-26T05:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T10:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/26\/trump-revives-old-tropes-as-he-pushes-warnings-of-communist-menace\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T05:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T10:54:58","slug":"trump-revives-old-tropes-as-he-pushes-warnings-of-communist-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/26\/trump-revives-old-tropes-as-he-pushes-warnings-of-communist-menace\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump revives old tropes as he pushes warnings of \u2018communist menace\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President harks back to red scare of his childhood to attack US left \u2013 but will such language resonate beyond Maga base?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps above all else, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> is a child of the cold war.<\/p>\n<p>Three months before the US president was born, Winston Churchill delivered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org\/sinews-of-peace-iron-curtain-speech.html\">historic speech in Fulton, Missouri,<\/a> that ushered in a generations-long existential struggle between western capitalism and Soviet communism.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/26\/trump-communism-democrats-red-scare\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President harks back to red scare of his childhood to attack US left \u2013 but will such language resonate beyond Maga base? Perhaps above all else, Donald Trump is a child of the cold war. Three months before the US president was born, Winston Churchill delivered a historic speech in Fulton, Missouri, that ushered in &#8230; <a title=\"Trump revives old tropes as he pushes warnings of \u2018communist menace\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/26\/trump-revives-old-tropes-as-he-pushes-warnings-of-communist-menace\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump revives old tropes as he pushes warnings of \u2018communist menace\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}