re: #324 HappyWarrior

I do wonder though how much the red baiting will work when there are actual clips of Trump’s supporters physically roughing people up and telling them to go to Auschwitz or go back to Africa. i don’t think the red baiting is going to work with the general public like Trump thinks it will. With his base, absolutely but then again these are the kind of people who see communism everywhere to start with.

Not to mention that in a post-Cold War world, squawking “communist” at one’s political rivals doesn’t have near the salience it once did. Hell, even *during* the Cold War red-baiting had some level of limits as to its effectiveness: In 2016, it just becomes one more thing to mock The Donald for: and, as we know, mockery is a much better weapon against Trump than insult…