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Robert Tait in Washington

Trump revives old tropes as he pushes warnings of ‘communist menace’

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Donald Trump delivers a speech in Philadelphia in 2016. Roy Cohn, Joe McCarthy’s chief counsel, became Trump’s mentor in later decades. Photograph: Mark Makela/Getty Images

Perhaps above all else, Donald Trump is a child of the cold war.

Three months before the US president was born, Winston Churchill delivered a historic speech in Fulton, Missouri, that ushered in a generations-long existential struggle between western capitalism and Soviet communism.

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