Trump Warns Against Communism
Trump’s warning about communism is justified. If we broaden the term and speak instead of etatism and collectivism, his argument hits the nail on the head.
Thomas Kolbe | July 18, 2026
President Donald Trump has issued a strong warning against communist tendencies in his country. A look at the European Union and Germany provides an explanation: figures like Zohran Mamdani can be found everywhere around us.
Two powerful tendencies are currently challenging Western culture. First, Islam is moving into the spiritual vacuum left behind by a toothless and, in many respects, spiritually hollow Christianity. It turns out that a church which has degenerated into a moralizing green NGO can no longer offer people comfort and support in the face of the existential questions of human existence.
Second -- and this tendency has become almost a paradigm within the European Union -- we are witnessing the openly pursued construction of a powerful state economy.
In numerous Western countries, government spending ratios have now reached the worrying threshold of 50 percent. Within this development crystallizes what can rightly be described as faith in the state: the desire to place responsibility for one’s own existence, from cradle to grave, into the hands of government.
The state is not merely acting as regulator, caretaker, and commander, intervening ever more deeply in economic processes and in people’s daily lives. Its desire for control, extending to the construction of a genuine nanny state that only formally still qualifies as a welfare state, consumes enormous sums of money and drives taxes and levies ever higher.
It appears that parts of the West have ignored Hayek’s warning and set out once again to explore the road to serfdom. This road is paved with small incentives and benefits designed to prevent people from recognizing their growing dependence and abandoning the path they have embarked upon.
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