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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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George Chidi

Red scare revived as Trump leads push to attack Democrats as ‘communists’

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Trump at the Faith & Freedom Coalition summit in Washington in June. Photograph: Evan Vucci/Reuters

Moments after Donald Trump rang the ceremonial opening bell on Monday, starting the trading day from the Oval Office, 232 miles north on Wall Street, the US senator Ted Cruz celebrated the president’s new savings accounts as his administration’s “New Deal”.

“But instead of having government taking care of everyone,” the Republican senator declared, “Trump accounts are about making every child and every American a capitalist.”

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