Trump Is Planning a Third Red Scare

Donald Trump and his team plan to crush pro-Palestinian activists' First Amendment rights and carry out a wave of repression, writes Frida Ghitis .

She says the Heritage Foundation's ' Project Esther' aims to “level a decisive blow against both antisemitism and anti-Americanism” Ghitis: Trumpworld’s plan is, in other words, an unholy cocktail of the “war on terror” of this century and the Red Scare of the last one.

Trump and his running mate, J. D. Vance , have publicly talked about “aggressively attack” universities and “reclaim[ing]” them from “ Marxist maniacs and lunatics,” writes Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: These are not just eccentric ideas that one or a handful of Trump ’s people see as a passion project, but which the man himself is unlikely to pull the trigger on.

Already, ultrawealthy liberals are retreating from the loud opposition to Trump that carried so much social and cultural cache after 2016 in the face of his threats.

Trump ’s planned assault on the pro-Palestinian movement and leftists will likely get crucial support from right-wing Democrats in Congress who have an antagonistic relationship with the Left .