communists

The reference to a threat from North Korea and "anti-state forces" suggests he was also hoping to garner support from the kind of right-wing conservatives in South Korea who label liberal politicians "communists".

On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly parroted propaganda used in Nazi Germany when pledging to “root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country.”

He and McCarthy instigated a massive investigation and purge of government employees whom they accused of being communists or outed as homosexuals.

In one Vietnamese-language mailer this month, Steel sought to tie Tran to Chinese communists like Mao Zedong, criticizing him for owning “thousands of dollars of cryptocurrency linked to China.”

"This is a media-savvy movement, filling the airwaves with claims that those opposed to them are cutural Marxists, communists and demons that have to be removed from the high places of culture and society."