The New Red Scare

Katie Writes · Jul 23, 2026
High-level Republicans are throwing around wild conspiracies about communist plots, infiltration, and revolution. They are darkly intimating that even centrist Democrats harbor murderous, totalitarian aims, while they rehabilitate Joseph McCarthy. But history is repeating itself as farce. McCarthy at least operated during the height of the Soviet bloc, whereas today's cold warriors are jumping at shadows, 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union.
President Donald Trump|
[The Democrats are] turning communist themselves. It’s becoming a communist party. These are not social dumbocrats, these are hard-core, godless communists…This is the most serious threat to our country since it’s existence, in my opinion…

They will close your churches in this country if they go communist, and they’re trying to. They will kill your people and that's what they're about. They want to end religion.
Speaker Mike Johnson|
[Communism] is a nightmare and is a trail to certain death…

We’re fighting right now in Congress over whether we're going to maintain our status as a constitutional republic or we're going to trade that in, dismantle the foundations and go down this dark road of death to communism…

The American people have to decide in November…The barbarians are in the gate.
Rep. Elise Stefanik|
[NY Governor Kathy Hochul] is beholden and has embraced these radical Marxist proposals, these Communist policies…

[T]hat's where today's national Democrat Party is. They have embraced and propped up the Marxist Communist wing, which is now mainstream.
Stefanik was chair of the House Republican Conference from 2021 - 2025.
Rep. Lisa McLain|
This is no longer a debate between slightly different economic policies.

This is a choice between freedom and tyrannical government control.

Between the American Dream and the failed nightmare of communism.
McLain is Chairwoman of the House Republican Conference.
Rep. Steve Scalise|
It's insane to see how far left the Democrat Party has moved to where now literally it's a Bolshevik Revolution. I mean, the Communists have taken over.
Scalise is the House Majority Leader.
Senator Rick Scott|
Legislators in Virginia pass an anti-gun bill. But who do they create exceptions for? Themselves…What’s that sound like? Maybe communist, you know, communist countries…So, think of communist China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela before Trump got there. So, this is what they're doing. They're destroying our freedom.
Senator Ted Cruz|
Radical, Marxist, Islamist, jihadist, America-hating, communist left.

That’s the heart of today’s Democrat Party.
Senator Jim Banks|
[T]he communist cancer that makes up the ideology of the mainstream of the Democrat Party…that’s what the Democrats believe in, it’s who they are.
Senator Tommy Tuberville|
[The] SAVE America Act is the number one thing people want. We just saw the nonsense in California and we’re seeing the nonsense of these communists taking over our country - and they’re not socialists, they’re communists.
Senator Eric Schmitt|
You get this hammer-and-sickle wave we saw in New York — that is not going to be an isolated incident…Their primaries now are going to be dominated by these people who want to go to war with Western civilization.
Senator Marsha Blackburn|
Every day, radical Democrats are working to make America more like Communist China.
Senator Tommy Tuberville |
[O]ur judicial system from top to bottom in a lot of areas has been infiltrated by communists and socialist judges.
Senator Tom Cotton|
We should remember the roots of it in Marxism and Leninism, that’s the direction the Democratic Party wants to take America.
Senator Steve Daines|
[Mamdani’s election] really looks a lot like the Bolsheviks and so forth, the revolution we saw when Communists suddenly appeared.
Senator JD Vance|
In the past, communists marched in the streets waving red flags. Today, they march through HR, college campuses, and courtrooms to wage lawfare against good, honest people. In Unhumans, Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec reveal their plans and show us what to do to fight back.
Senator Rick Scott|
The woke left now controls the Democrat Party, the entire federal government, the news media, academia, big tech, Hollywood, most corporate boardrooms and now even some of our top military leaders…

They want to end the American experiment. They want to replace freedom with control…everyone will obey and no one will be allowed to complain…

And let’s remember it resulted in a hundred million deaths in the last century. Yet these Democrats…are just acting like they just invented socialism.
Karoline Leavitt|
This is not the Democrat Party of JFK. This is a full-blown communist revolution that is taking over Capitol Hill…the inmates are running the asylum.
Karoline Leavitt is White House Press Secretary.
Stephen Miller|
The Democrat party has embraced not only socialism, they have embraced communism. Straight-up, outright, full-throated communism.
Miller is the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, who Steve Bannon has called Trump’s “prime minister."
Ben Carson|
Communist goals for America number 15: capture one or both of the political parties in the United States – seems like they’ve done a good job there…We think we won the Cold War, but they had a longer plan. And that’s why Kruschev said to Eisenhower, “your grandchildren's children will live under communism and we won’t have to fire one shot.” We see it happening all around us.
Carson was Secretary of HUD in the first Trump Administration. Here, he spins a conspiracy of half-century long plot by communists that continues even though the Soviet bloc fell.
Jesse Watters|
[They're] coming for us...our money...our people...our way of life. It's not socialism, guys. This is communism…

You can't reason with these guys. You have to crush them. And we will…We're not going to let our civilization get destroyed…

[C]ommunism is going to take over the Democratic Party and we're going to have to beat it. Because you can't do anything else besides beat it to a pulp.
Watters is the host of Jesse Watters Primetime on Fox News.
Mark Levin|
The Democrat Party has made a decision. It’s now officially a communist party. That is, a Marxist-Islamist Party. That’s what it is, we don’t have to guess anymore. It’s not Democratic Socialist…The party is now officially communist, it’s officially Islamist, it’s officially un-American.
Levin is the host of Life, Liberty & Levin on Fox News.
Matt Schlapp|
We all have to remember that because the Left, the hard Left, the Marxists, the satanists, the communists, they love it when we’re all fighting, when we’re at each other’s throats, when we’re calling each other names.
Schlapp said this in his opening remarks for CPAC 2026.
Matt Walsh|
I absolutely want a new era of McCarthyism to crush the communists. McCarthy was right and fully justified.
In 2025, House Speaker Mike Johnson hosted Walsh as his guest to a presidential address and called Walsh and Ben Shapiro “pillars of the conservative movement.”
Jack Posobiec|
He knew

He knew everything

McCarthy was right
Posobiec’s 2024 book, Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them), was blurbed by then-Senator JD Vance.
Jack Posobiec|
Even if we win the election, we still have a chance to save Western civilization, but it is no sure thing… if we are going to chase the communists back into their urine-soaked faculty lounges, we must learn the lessons of past anti-communist revolutions…
hamiltonnolan.com/p/jack-posobiecs-speech-about-un-humans
The next speaker, Senator Roger Marshall, said, “Boy, great job, Jack. When people ask me what’s the hope out there, Jack’s voice is one of them.”
Donald Trump|
This election is not a choice between Democrats and Republicans. It's a choice between communism and freedom. That's what it's about.
Kevin Roberts|
The Soviet Union fell in 1991, and with it fell the shadow of global communism. But while Americans breathed a collective sigh of relief…a new conspiracy developed at home. Hiding behind a veil of “progressivism,” today’s communists have infiltrated many of the institutions that Americans cherish.
Kevin Roberts is President of the Heritage Foundation, the most important conservative think tank and creators of Project 2025.
Jesse Kelly|
The communist genuinely believes he's a liberal, or left-leaning, or a Democrat, or an environmentalist, or a civil rights advocate, or a feminist…

He may wear a sport coat and [teach]…He may sit in a boardroom..He may wear a uniform bearing stars and ribbons…

To the communist everything is a means to achieve one thing: destruction. Destruction of your communities. Destruction of your children. Destruction of you. Destruction of everything.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1668010879?lv=shuf&;channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback
Kevin Roberts called The Anti-Communist Manifesto “one of the best books I’ve read in the last several years.”
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