{"id":78046,"date":"2026-08-29T08:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T13:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/is-donald-trumps-bid-to-brand-democrats-as-radical-communists-working\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T08:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T13:57:20","slug":"is-donald-trumps-bid-to-brand-democrats-as-radical-communists-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/is-donald-trumps-bid-to-brand-democrats-as-radical-communists-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Donald Trump\u2019s bid to brand Democrats as \u2018radical\u2019 communists working?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In deep red South Carolina, the president helped stoke apprehension of a deeper red surge ahead of November\u2019s US midterm elections<\/p>\n<p>After casting his vote in South Carolina, a man who introduced himself as Chestnut was unwilling to give his full name. \u201cYou don\u2019t have a need to know,\u201d the air force veteran declared. He was, however, happy to share his views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a true American. I believe in the USA,\u201d said the man, outside Christ the Servant Lutheran church in Conway. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t believe in communism or socialism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/29\/republican-voters-south-carolina-communism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In deep red South Carolina, the president helped stoke apprehension of a deeper red surge ahead of November\u2019s US midterm elections After casting his vote in South Carolina, a man who introduced himself as Chestnut was unwilling to give his full name. \u201cYou don\u2019t have a need to know,\u201d the air force veteran declared. He &#8230; <a title=\"Is Donald Trump\u2019s bid to brand Democrats as \u2018radical\u2019 communists working?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/is-donald-trumps-bid-to-brand-democrats-as-radical-communists-working\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Is Donald Trump\u2019s bid to brand Democrats as \u2018radical\u2019 communists working?\">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-78046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78046","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=78046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}