Trump Warns of 'Communist Menace' at 250th Anniversary Event as 67% of Young Americans View Socialism Positively
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Updated · The Guardian · Jul 8
Trump Warns of 'Communist Menace' at 250th Anniversary Event as 67% of Young Americans View Socialism Positively
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jul 8
Summary
Mount Rushmore opened the U.S. 250th anniversary celebrations with Trump casting a "resurgence of the communist menace" as a threat and telling Americans they could be "a communist" or "a patriot," but not both.
The speech targeted Democrats and younger progressive figures as Trump sharpened attacks on "radicals" and "extremists" ahead of the midterm elections.
Polling cited in the report undercuts that message: 67% of young Americans in an Axios-Generation Lab survey viewed socialism positively or neutrally, versus 40% for capitalism.
A separate Cato Institute survey found Zoomers more supportive of socialism than capitalism, 53% to 45%, while 56% of Americans worried the U.S. could stop being a free country within 50 years because of corruption and abuses of power.