The Cold War Never Ended. It Just Came Home.
24th July 2026
Under President Ronald Reagan, Americans understood communism for what it was. We knew it wasn’t an ambitious social program or a compassionate alternative to capitalism. Everyone knew—without question—that it crushed faith, confiscated property, silenced dissent, and turned citizens into subjects of the state.
Then the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed. We defeated the communists so completely that following generations of Americans never witnessed their evils. They never saw the breadlines or watched families risk their lives to escape the regimes. They inherited freedom without learning what was required to preserve it.
Communism is not making a comeback because it was ever successful. It’s returning because Americans forgot why it failed. Now its advocates are walking down a red carpet rolled out by the Democratic Party…
It is said that Nikita Khrushchev once claimed that “Your grandchildren will live under communism.” I have been unable to track down the source of that meme, but it matches what I saw of Khrushchev when I was younger. (Yes, I am that old.)