Why are Republicans using the 'anti-communist' rhetoric against DemocratsUS President Donald Trump has sharply escalated his warnings about a communist takeover of the Democratic Party ahead of November's midterm elections, reviving Cold War-era rhetoric in a bid to radicalise his base and shift attention away from economic concerns.A Reuters analysis of Trump's public comments from June 23 through July 6, when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party's primaries in New York, found he invoked communism 81 times, including calling some of the victorious candidates "hardcore, godless communists.""Communism is the exact opposite of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It's death, tyranny and the pursuit of evil," Trump said at Mount Rushmore during 250th anniversary