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Dems should be very nervous about Trump’s declaration of war on socialism

Donald Trump all but announced one of his major themes for his 2020 re-election campaign during his State of the Union speech that had Republicans cheering and Democrats fidgeting nervously in their seats.

New York Sun:

The most remarkable moment in President Trump’s speech on the Union’s state was, by our lights at least, his declaration in respect of socialism.  He set up the haymaker with the vow that Americans “stand with the Venezuelan people in their noble quest for freedom.”  He marked how the Maduro regime’s “socialist policies” have turned the South American land into “a state of abject poverty and despair.”

“Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country,” Mr. Trump declared.  And then the already famous words: “America,” the President said, “was founded on liberty and independence — not government coercion, domination, and control.  We are born free, and we will stay free.”  Most of the congresspersons reacted by leaping to their feet in applause.

 

Read the full story from The American Thinker


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