The Associated Press complains that President Trump is calling their political allies “Communists”.

For years, President Donald Trump blamed “communists” for his legal and political troubles. Now, the second Trump administration is deploying that same historically loaded label to cast his opponents — from judges to educators — as threats to American identity, culture and values.

In 2025, communism wields big influence in countries such as China, Vietnam, North Korea and Cuba. But not the United States.

“The core of communism is the belief that governments can do better than markets in providing goods and services. There are very, very few people in the West who seriously believe that,” said Raymond Robertson of the Texas A&M University Bush School of Government & Public Service. “Unless they are arguing that the government should run U.S. Steel and Tesla, they are simply not communists.”

Very few people believe “governments can do better than markets in providing goods and services”?

That’s literally the mission statement of the current Democratic Party. Why else is it arguing in favor of universal health care and has created countless government agencies to control markets?

The Dems are currently being driven by the DSA’s socialist movement whose candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, is a socialist who argued that people didn’t really need 20 brands of deodorant.

And that’s in America. The West is even worse.

36% of Americans rate socialism positively. In the 18-24 category, nearly half want to see socialism in America. So much for the “very, very few people”.

And I rather suspect much of the AP, which is currently lying about the matter, would agree.