The United States in Vietnam, 1965–1968 American war planners believed material superiority would force the communists in Hanoi to surrender.
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Monica Duffy Toft,
The Conversation,
20 Mar. 2026
Unhumans uses the term communists interchangeably with progressives and Cultural Marxists (the modern right’s term for anyone who believes in left-of-center ideas about race, gender, and sexuality).
Democrats are both fighting to take back control of the House while progressives and socialists are also pushing for more control in Congress.
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Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
17 Feb. 2026
The new mayor is fond of his On the Waterfront rhetoric, and tends to suggest that, before the socialists came to power, city government was dismissive of the poor and working class.
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