Trump Is Engaged In ‘Stalinist’ Attempt To Rewrite U.S. History, Axelrod Warns

“Who controls the present controls the past.” – George Orwell, 1984

“This has just kind of a Soviet feel to it, a Stalinist feel to it, that you just … take over cultural institutions and historical institutions and you try and rewrite history,” Axelrod said.

Ruthless Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin built an extensive propaganda machine to rewrite the past, obfuscate the truth and promote himself as a benevolent leader even as he mismanaged the Soviet economy, resulting in mass famine, and sent millions of people to forced labor camps known as gulags.

“This is a president who is rewriting history every day,” Axelrod said of Trump. “And he believes that you can do that. You know, when crime is ‘up,’ no, crime is down. ‘Things cost less.’ No, things cost more. I mean, this goes on and on.”

Trump recently federalized the Washington, D.C., police and deployed National Guard troops there after lying about crime rates in the nation’s capital.

Those moves align with other Soviet-flavored developments, like the Smithsonian removing references to Donald Trump’s 2019 and 2021 impeachments (while denying the White House pressured it to do so), and the government’s annotated copy of the U.S. Constitution mysteriously being edited to omit sections explaining the limits of federal power and references to habeas corpus.

Axelrod closed with a reflection on what the nation’s founders might think of Trump, noting the absurdity of his attempting to rewrite history in honor of America’s 250th anniversary.

“The irony … is that in this instance,” he said, “this is all around the 250th anniversary of our founding fathers declaring themselves free of a mad king.”