Article – The ConversationAs democratic socialists make inroads into mainstream US politics, one loaded word is doing a lot of work for their ideological opponents. After candidates associated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) movement won several Democratic primaries in June, President Donald Trump alone invoked communism 81 times within two weeks. The first Red Scare followed the Russian Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. In the second Red Scare of the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy used allegations of communist association to destroy careers and silence dissent. But another Red Scare may be.