If you took Karoline Leavitt’s words at face value, you’d be a deeply confused, extremely alarmed person. For one thing, you’d believe that “literal self-proclaimed communists” are “winning elections” and “claiming to be the new leadership” of the Democratic Party. This fact, the White House press secretary told the room gravely on Thursday, could end up making America look very much like the “failed state” of Cuba.
It’s not exactly unusual for Republicans to call Democrats communists, but it is interesting how the words “literal” and “self-proclaimed” have now lost all their meaning in MAGAland.
