Can the Trump Administration Finish Off the Far Left Radical Movement?
May 14th, 2025
Things have gotten off to a flying start here in 2025 -- to put it very mildly. And despite the barrage of usual negative headlines president Donald Trump’s supporters are very happy with it all. It is, in fact, exactly what we voted for. But something unsettling still lingers quietly in the background. Something very ugly. It’s an uncomfortable question, really:
Will president Donald Trump be able to finish off this very regrettable far left neo-Communist movement once and for all? Or will it continue to take new life, morphing and shaping itself into a far more hideous beast than it already is?
This is not a hit piece on the new Trump Administration nor is it a critique -- it is simply a very long inquiry that will remain to be answered in time. Former president Richard Nixon towards the end of his life in the early nineties sensed the lurking communist threat that we are now living amongst. Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union, he understood that the appeal of communism would remain very palatable in places like academia, the “prestige” media establishment and that the players behind the system would seek new life in other places. In 1992 he wrote, “Communism is a discredited ideology, but Communists are still effective in using force to gain and retain power.” And he was right.
To consider back then the type of world we would be living in today would have been a rough stretch of the imagination, but Nixon saw it very clearly. He knew the unpredictability of history and what kinds of strange combinations could be waiting on the horizon. And here we are -- taking very drastic measures to dismantle all of it.
President Trump has made massive strides so far in his second term and for the moment is winning in this very difficult and convoluted war -- in many ways, a war taking place in people’s minds, but will it be enough in the long run?
The steps he has taken in setting up DOGE to cut off money for far left causes and the bloat within the federal government is unprecedented and without a doubt one of the most serious political moves made in decades -- perhaps even since the founding of this country. It will begin to wind down many of the destructive programs and policies that have been put in place contrary to all common sense, but will it slay the dragon in the end? We are fighting against a terrible monster that preys upon the minds of people and has a nasty habit of reshaping itself and putting on new masks.
It seems crazy that this far left radical agenda would still be a thing in people’s minds after so many instances of being wholly discredited, but let me be the first to tell you as someone surrounded daily by fire-breathing liberals: they still believe every word of what they’re told. All of it. It’s really a bubble that they exist in, but they wholeheartedly accept it is as the world. It’s certainly a strange and troubled place that they occupy, but it still exists. In many ways it is a parallel reality, but it feeds them daily and gives them hope that one day they’ll achieve. . .something. They haven’t really decided what the definition of victory is yet, but they’re working on it.
And all of this presents a serious problem for the United States and the world. It is a collection of issues that are now presented by a post-truth society. No matter what these people see or hear for themselves they will continue to hold onto destructive ideas for the sake of the ideas. No matter how catastrophic their ideology in actuality or how many times they are proven wrong they will still hold all of it dear. The Democrat Party is currently demonstrating this problem with their doubling down on far left causes so radical that they belong in a satire and their positioning of people like Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as serious contenders in 2028.
Let us hope that the Trump Administration at the very least keeps up the valiant pace that they have established and finally reduces this beast into the fringe phenomenon that it really is -- one that eventually vanishes into thin air.
Works Cited
Nixon, R. (1992). Seize the Moment. Simon and Schuster.