by WorldTribune Staff, August 27, 2026 Non-AI Real World News

The U.S. remains in a century-long ideological conflict against an adapted, “modern guise” of communism that has penetrated American institutions, the author of a new book warns.

To counter this threat, Dr. Bradley A. Thayer argues in “America’s 100 Years’ War: How to Win Against Communism” for a renewed commitment to traditional American values and Western civilization .

Thayer states that the striking feature of communism now seen in its “modern guise” with the takeover of the Democrat Party is “Leninist discipline.”

The United States has one party that is anti-American vs Republicans that have “been outfoxed at every level,” the author states.

Democrats, Thayer notes, are “much better at political warfare. Communism is an illegitimate form of government. There is no social contract.”

Communists have killed over 100 million. It is an “evil and odious ideology wherever it is tried,” Thayer writes.

From the Khmer Rouge to China to God forbid here in the United States should the communists ever take power. The CCP is of course illegitimate. They are a product of Soviet imperialism. Stalin gave all orders. Stalin chose Mao. Mao had no original ideas. The CCP has no authorization to rule China.

“Communism is a western product,” Thayer contends. It is not in any way stemming from China’s Han culture.

“Americans had better get smart about Communism, and quickly,” Thayer wrote in an Aug. 25 op-ed for Human Events:

Americans must recognize the size of the threat. Communism was the shared ideology of the U.S.’s cold war foes: the Soviet Union (1946-1991) and currently the People’s Republic of China (PRC). As President Donald Trump has stated, Communism is the most pernicious and most formidable enemy, foreign and domestic, America has ever faced. It is the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and of the modern Democratic Party in the United States.

Communists have the worst ideas but are the best at advancing them — and imposing them on the rest of us. The U.S. has been slow to respond to the advance of Communism, but the fight against Communism is not a new one for Americans.

Year after year, Communism has advanced and now is experiencing a renaissance among America’s youth, as Mamdani’s victory shows. Communist ideology remains enticing—it possesses a powerful appeal for the political left. It is so potent because it has been supremely successful at delivering on its promise of tyrannical power to a small, elite group that can seize and maintain state control, employ the harshest of measures to keep power, and justify its tyranny by claiming that it is “progressive,” when it fact it is monstrously retrogressive. Communism is an efficient model for totalitarian control that has been successful at seizing power in the past, as it is today.

But the appeal is not only for the elites who would rule. At the popular level, it is enticing because it promises emancipation, the excitement of rebellion, the overthrow of an established order, revenge against purported oppressors, and the possibility of realizing a millenarian aim: a better and brighter future.

Americans had better get smart about Communism, and quickly. Not perceiving Communism as a hyper-aggressive ideology has been a massive mistake that has allowed Communists to weaken American identity at home and permit the growth of the PRC’s power to the point where it now rivals the United States.

Importantly, it was not an error made by Americans in the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Then, Americans were cognizant of Communism’s dangers at home and abroad. It was the principal national security policy impact for most of the twentieth century and is for this one as well.

Americans have the power to defeat Communism. The stronger American identity is, the weaker is Communism. The more powerful Western civilization is, the more Communism’s lies and deceit is exposed.. A renaissance of American identity is needed to defeat Communism and save Western civilization.

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