Whether provoked by Mamdani or Mao or some of latest horrific candidates for Congress, President Trump felt impelled to say a few words against communism during his speech at Mount Rushmore to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
As we approach this magnificent anniversary, we see our American identity under a renewed attack. A generation after we fought and won the Cold War against the menace of communism, there is now a resurgence of the communist menace in our land—including from newcomers to our country who embrace ideas totally opposed to our way of life.
These are not mere political disagreements, like differences over taxes or regulations. Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty. It is the greatest threat to our country, including World War One, World War Two, Pearl Harbor, or 9/11.
Because communism is the enemy of free people everywhere. It is the enemy of the Constitution. Above all, it is the enemy of July 4th, 1776. It is the enemy indeed.
Even while the radicals and extremists attack our incredible history at every turn, they are silent on the miserable history of communism itself because it never worked. Thousands of years, if you look at it, under different names, under somewhat different ideologies and systems, that system has led to more death and destruction than any system ever tried. It killed 100 million people just in the last century alone.
Communism is the exact opposite of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It’s death, tyranny, and the pursuit of evil. The godless communist morality states that anything is justified to bring about inhuman visions and to really propose what’s good. They don’t want good. They don’t love God, and they don’t want God. They don’t love religion and they don’t want religion and they won’t have it. But we will not let them win. They have no chance against us.
They have no respect for law, justice, principle, tradition, or your God-given rights. It’s an ideology of mass theft, mass control, mass lies, and mass murder. Such doctrines can be given no quarter in a democracy because the first thing they do when they get into power is turn around and destroy it. It always is destroyed, just as communists have done in other countries all over the world, no matter where you look.
Very simply, communism represents the worst ideas and abuses in history by the worst people. The American founding represents the best ideas and traditions in history by the best people like you.
You can be loyal to Karl Marx or you can be loyal to America. You can be a communist or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both.
I agree with much of what President Trump says here. But as a godless noncommunist and anticommunist I can’t quite accept the doctrine that atheism as such is vicious, as the president, in concert with many others, offhandedly implies. (Or, for that matter, that being religious is a certain antidote to ideological and other poisons.) Atheism is merely the absence of a particular belief, one for which in my view we have no evidence. A person’s lack of belief in gods or a God doesn’t tell you what he does believe and why. An atheist can be loyal to the Declaration of Independence and an enemy of The Communist Manifesto and “the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.”
