Many people who know me will recall that way back in 2015, during the last full year of the Obama Administration and as the 2016 election season was getting underway, I started giving people a simple warning. Using social media, during my speaking engagements, and during guest spots on radio programs, I reminded everyone that throughout history, “no communist regime has ever willingly given up power.”

As was the case in the former Soviet Union, the people had to rise and shake loose from the bonds of communism that had held them captive for decades, forcing then Soviet Premiere Mikhail Gorbachev from office and bringing down the Soviet regime.

The people of the once-Soviet Bloc nation of Romania took it a step further. They dispatched the former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena, standing them both before a wall and exacting permanent judgment against them for the crimes they committed against the Romanian people.

I followed the warning I started giving in 2015 with a historical reminder that “the Bolshevik Revolution WAS NOT a popular uprising. It was a small minority of Marxists who seized control, and then forced........

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