Let’s think about life after Donald Trump’s presidency.
We are witness to a new Iron Curtain waiting to fall.
And fall it will, if conservatives lose control of our nation.
We must study history to know the truth.
There is no healthy face or facet of communism.
Communism remains evil and repressive; its sister ideology, socialism, carries the same false promise whenever it replaces individual liberty, private ownership, and the sovereignty of the citizen with centralized government control.
This is not fearmongering. The socialistic, communistic, non-America-first and anti-sovereignty politics rising today among the left threatens the central principle of conservative populism: that the citizen is the true ruler and owner of the country.
America rose from World War II as the leading power of the free world, but after an estimated 70 million to 85 million people died, the peace that followed delivered another darkness.
Central and Eastern Europe were pulled behind Soviet domination.
An Iron Curtain fell across Europe, and the killing did not end when the war ended.
After 1945, communist governments caused tens of millions of additional deaths through executions, forced labor, deportations, political imprisonment, state-created famines and organized terror.
Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward alone is commonly estimated to have caused approximately 30 million to 45 million deaths.
Historians debate the exact total globally speaking, but the strongest defensible conclusion remains devastating: communist governments caused many tens of millions of deaths.
President Harry S. Truman understood the choice.
One way of life rested upon free institutions, representative government, free elections and freedom from political oppression.
The other relied upon terror, a controlled press, fixed elections, and the suppression of personal freedoms.
In an address to Congress on March 12, 1947, our nation’s 33rd president debuted what became known as the Truman Doctrine.
At the time, Truman was seeking aid for Turkey and Greece, contending:
“I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.”
That is the American principle: support free people, not control them; defend sovereignty, not surrender it.
Karl Marx gave the communist promise its most famous expression, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
This may sound compassionate to some, but it ends in coercion.
Someone must decide what each person can produce, what each person needs and who must surrender what. That someone is the state.
Behind perfect equality stands an official, a bureaucracy, a tribunal, a political police force or an elite class.
America does not guarantee parity of talent, income, accomplishment, happiness or outcome. “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is not a promise that everyone will arrive at the same destination. It guarantees the freedom and opportunity to pursue one.
The false promise of equal outcomes leads toward enslavement because government must become increasingly powerful to impose them.
To flatten every peak and valley, revolutionaries must remove God, deconstruct the family, deconstruct gender, deconstruct the success of others and confiscate or redistribute by force.
They replace God, family, citizenship and self-government with a false god: an elite group that claims it will rule and care for everyone else. Citizens cease to be sovereign and become dependent.
We see this ideology rising in Hollywood, among our elites, throughout our universities and inside the progressive left. It waits in the darkness to pounce in 2026, in 2028 and in the era beyond Donald Trump.
The Democratic Socialists of America calls for public ownership of major corporations and essential industries and says capitalism must be replaced.
Communist organizations operate openly inside the United States, while Communist China targets American institutions. The ideological and authoritarian pressure is real.
Trump has exposed the degree to which America has been sold out to globalism, global technocrats, multinational corporations and elites operating beyond our borders.
He has been demonized, impeached, prosecuted and nearly assassinated because he states truths the ruling class does not want spoken. But these noble efforts cannot begin and end with one man, one administration, or one election.
We must make communism, cultural Marxism and socialism evil again and treat them with moral absolutism.
Every legitimate humanitarian goal they claim to own can be achieved through a free and caring society without confiscation, compulsion, political repression or the destruction of individual sovereignty.
We altogether halt cultural Marxism, socialism, and the growing fascination with communism through the light of history, moral clarity and boldness, because America still holds the future of the civilized world.
We must start thinking and acting now — beyond the administration of our nation’s 47th commander in chief, Donald John Trump.
A New Iron Curtain Looms: How Communist Ideologies Prepare to Dominate America After Trump
