Mike Johnson literally just said the Pentagon is asking for an additional $350 billion to fight "Communism on our own shores." This is pure McCarthyism theater dressed up as defense spending. "Communism on our own shores" is code for: dissent, organizing, anyone who questions the forever war machine. They're not talking about a military threat. They're talking about controlling the domestic population. This fits perfectly into Trump's authoritarian playbook: label everything he doesn't like as an existential enemy, then weaponize the entire Pentagon budget to crush it. The grift and the authoritarianism are the same project now.