Republicans, Facing Midterm Peril, Try to Brand Democrats as Communists

Communism, in the president’s hyperbolic telling, is a graver threat to the country than the Pearl Harbor or 9/11 attacks were. Whether this midterm strategy works is an open question.During the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas this week, President Donald Trump returned — again and again and again — to baseless claims that Democrats were running as communists in the midterms.