As lifelong democratic socialist I know that president Donald Trump is not just speaking for incipient American fascism when he personally and ludicrously OUTLAWS socialism from the United States and the countries circumscribed by the Monroe Doctrine. He is speaking for the US ruling class. Their quarrel with socialism goes back to the turn of the last century.
The capitalist controlled mainstream news media makes it clear what Karl Marx observed way back in 1848 : " The ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class ".
To promote THEIR ideas the ruling class here in the United States has cultivated the most servile, cowardly intellectual class in human history . Here even the hapless public school teacher can hardly get away with any serious criticism of capitalism or the American imperialism .
Again and again I hear a popular TV and radio " news celebrity in Rhode Island affirm that he was always taught in school that " socialism was bad " .
I sent him a polite e-mail : " Gene, try wearing a VOTE SOCIALIST button to work one day and see how quickly Security will escort you out the door. "