Welcome to America’s First Communist Government

If the label fits, wear it

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As I scroll through my social media feeds by the light of the flaming wreckage of civil society, I observe that MAGA folk really get a boner from calling anything they dislike “Communist.”

Higher minimum wage? Communist! Bodily autonomy for women? Communist! Nose ring? Communist!

Now, I’m not so naive as to believe your average red-hatter has spent years studying Marx and Engels. Still, anyone tossing around the word “Communist” with such abandon should have at least a rudimentary idea of what it actually looks like.

And what it looks like is the Trump regime. It’s not surprising — Trump’s man-crush on former KGB spymaster Putin is no more a secret than Putin’s hankering to bring the stinking corpse of the Soviet Union shambling back from history’s graveyard.

“Good thinking, Vlad, I’ll take a piece of that authoritarian action!” says the American sycophant-in-chief, as he vomits out another furious diktat via Truth Social.

Consider some parallels:

Concentration of power with the executive

Communist regimes typically have a legislative body, but it’s only there to rubber-stamp the decisions of the Stalin or Mao who…