Trump defines leftwing “terrorism” in a National Security Memorandum

The Orange Anomaly has just issued National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7).

It’s vague enough that it would allow basically anyone the Trump cult doesn’t like to be designated as a leftwing terrorist.

Ken Klippenstein explains: (1)

The Trump administration isn’t only targeting organizations or groups but even individuals and “entities” whom NSPM-7 says can be identified by any of the following “indicia” (indicators) of violence:

• anti-Americanism
• anti-capitalism
• anti-Christianity [but apparently not antisemitism or Islamophobia! Does this include the majority of people in the world who are, you know, not Christians?]
• support for the overthrow of the United States Government
• extremism on migration [is Stephen Miller a leftwing terrorist now?]
• extremism on race [isn't this blasphemy against St. Charlie Kirk?]
• extremism on gender [wait: they're throwing the entire Christian Right under the bus? Including Amy Coney Barrett's weirdo Handmaiden's Tale Catholic sect?]
• hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family  [so, divorced people are now all Commie terrorists?]
• hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion
• hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality. 

Does this support-for-overthrowing-the-government criteria mean that Trump and the cop-killing mob he incited to attack the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 are all now defined as leftwing terrorists? Does that new definition override the pardons that the cult leader gave out to participants?

This is further proof that the ghosts of J. Edgar Hoover and Richard Nixon – and, of course, Roy Cohn - are still haunting the US.

C-Span reported: (2)

Does it amount to a new Red Scare? (3) Or maybe a Blue Scare? We’ll soon see.

Notes:

1) Klippenstein, Ken (2025): Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”. Ken Klippenstein Substack 09/27/2025. <https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs> (Accessed: 2025-28-09).

(2) President Trump Signs Executive Order on Organized Political Violence. C-Span YouTube channgel 09/25/2025. <https://youtu.be/t0G76CFFqvo?si=EN8U7nzhE_Uvq9Pl> (Accessed: 2025-28-09).

(3) “This Is the Third Red Scare:” Historian’s Warning for U.S. Free Speech. Amanpour and Company YouTube channel 09/26/2025. <https://youtu.be/sFkum56e5LA?si=Vgol9T4qFTPBgXbG> (Accessed: 2025-28-09).

The New Red Scare? Historian on McCarthyism and Parallels to Today. Amanpour and Company YouTube channel 03/25/2025. <https://youtu.be/pcuYybbehAo?si=Hmt5XIn35RtjyEIa> (Accessed: 2025-28-09).