When President Trump reposted a video featuring President John F. Kennedy warning about subversion in America, he renewed focus on a threat we have long ignored at our peril.
Spotlighting JFK’s admonition is part of the administration’s all-out attack on foreign subversion—an effort that has no presidential precedent. Its designation of Antifa and certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as terrorist organizations was a first. The revocation of visas for foreign subversives, if carried out on a larger scale, will be unmatched in scope. During the July 16 Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and other officials made clear that the Trump Administration would use every tool of statecraft to dismantle the decades-old subversive networks operating in the U.S.
This effort has also refocused attention on an older—but no less potent—enemy: Communist subversion.
The State Department published a 100-page report, “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” detailing how Cuban Communists have worked for decades to overthrow the United States. It names names, past and present.
Cuba, of course, brings us back to President Kennedy. Despite his failed effort to remove Fidel Castro’s Communist regime, Kennedy frequently pointed out how Communists abused constitutional protections and infiltrated U.S. institutions—the news media, labor unions, academia, and the government itself. JFK’s words still apply today to surviving Soviet spinoffs like the Cuban regime, critical theory and critical race theory, cultural Marxism, and democratic socialism.
John F. Kennedy spoke passionately of the problem of Communist subversion from his earliest moments as a senator to the last days of his presidency.
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