Every single indicator shows that Republicans are headed for an absolute disaster of a midterm election.
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Republicans → show → election
Polling shows them potentially losing Senate seats in Texas, Kansas and even Iowa.
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them → show → Texas
Every week, the generic ballot, which determines if voters would prefer a replacement-level Democrat or Republican for Congress, shows Democrats gaining a lead with almost every survey.
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Democrats → determine → survey
Gas prices continue to climb and the Federal Reserve raised interest rates this week.
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Reserve → continue → rates
And that has President Donald Trump and his lockstep Republican leadership drawing from an ancient well: Fear-mongering about ... communism
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Trump → draw → communism
Even the late Sen. Joe McCarthy, who effectively made red-baiting a brand in the 1950s, might be rolling his eyes if he weren’t rolling in his grave over MAGA’s broad definition of a communist.
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he → make → communist
During the unprecedented (for a reason) Republican midterm convention, the GOP frequently invoked communism and socialism, painting Democrats as all in thrall to the far left of the party.
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GOP → invoke → party
Plenty of them sought to tie the Democrats to Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, even displaying images of Piker in his underwear.
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Plenty → seek → underwear
And Republicans are seeking to paint Democratic challengers as all socialist or communist-obsessed.
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Republicans → seek → socialist
“We've described that contrast in five words: common sense versus communist crazy,” House Republican Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) told reporters during the House GOP’s weekly press conference.
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McClain → describe → conference
“Karl Marx used socialism and communism interchangeably.
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Marx → use → socialism
He believed socialism was a step to get to communism,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said.
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Johnson → believe → communism
“These these crazy candidates believe the same thing.”
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candidates → believe → thing
Trump has used the same formulation in his rhetoric, reposting videos and images on his Truth Social account saying “DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM MUST BE CRIMINALIZED; LEADERS DEPORTED!”
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LEADERS → use → account
It’s tempting to think the Democratic Party is overtaken by socialists.
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Party → ’ → socialists
A series of high-profile primaries throughout the summer showed members of the Democratic Socialists of America knock off Democratic incumbents in New York, Colorado and Michigan.
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members → show → York
And Americans still remain largely allergic to socialism.
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Americans → remain → socialism
A New York Times/Siena College poll shows that only 18 percent of likely American voters consider themselves democratic socialists.
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themselves → show → voters
The same survey showed that while 38 percent of likely voters have a favorable opinion of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (who is set to meet with Trump at Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s residence, for a second one-on-one late Monday afternoon), the most prominent elected democratic socialist in the United States, 34 percent have an unfavorable opinion of the mayor and 22 percent don’t know or refused.
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percent → show → mayor
And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), often seen as the most likely potential socialist candidate for president, has a 41 percent unfavorable rate.
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Cortez → see → rate
Even with the victories of DSA-endorsed candidates and even left-wing Senate candidates like Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, moderate Democrats far outpace socialist candidates.
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Democrats → endorse → candidates
Only seven DSA-endorsed candidates have won primaries in shoe-in primaries.
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candidates → endorse → primaries
And DSA-endorsed candidates have lost as many, if not more congressional races.
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candidates → endorse → races
By contrast, the political action committee for the Blue Dogs, the conservative contingent of the party, has 16 candidates going to the general.
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committee → have → general
Democrats still largely depend on their support to flip seats to the extent that even Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have endorsed Blue Dogs like Bob Brooks in Pennsylvania’s 7th district and Sam Forstag in Montana’s 1st district.
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Cortez → depend → district
By the same token, the New Democratic Coalition, the contigency of slightly more-moderate Democrats, have gotten behind 36 candidates (and there is some crossover between these endorsements).
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Coalition → get → endorsements
That means the moderate coalitions have far more of a voice than the socialists in the House Democratic caucus and would if they take back the majority in the House.
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they → mean → House
Republicans are trying to paint these centrists as out-of-touch socialists, or rather, “communists.”
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Republicans → try → socialists
But it’s fairly difficult to depict Iowa’s Lindsay James, whom McClain called out, as either when she’s a chaplain.
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she → ’ → either
Meanwhile, the reality is that many in the Democratic caucus have already denounced socialism.
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many → denounce → socialism
In November 2025, 86 Democrats voted for a resolution by Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar denouncing “the horrors of socialism.
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Democrats → vote → socialism
It also ignores the fact that Trump himself has taken somewhat communist-style actions such as having the U.S. government take a 15 percent share in Nvidia’s exports to China and government golden share.
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government → ignore → China
When The Independent asked Johnson about this big red paintbrush his team and Trump are using, he dodged.
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he → ask → paintbrush
“So what the president is articulating — he comes up with creative ideas all the time, he's the ideas director — and we have a hard time keeping pace with it sometimes,” Johnson said in a bit of word salad.
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Johnson → articulate → salad
Johnson did not mention the public ownership part.
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Johnson → mention → part
And on Friday, Trump took another Soviet-style step when he banned CNN, Politico and MSNOW from the White House.
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he → take → House
So one has to wonder, which team really is more closely aligned with the notion of communist-style leadership.
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team → have → leadership
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