Communists create artificial crises and then claim that only they can solve them.

[Communist Herbert Marcuse] redefined “clear and present danger” to mean whatever he disliked, much as twenty-first century leftists do when they classify constitutionally protected gun ownership as a “public health crisis” or the predictions of fickle meteorological models as a “national emergency.” Rather than admit the enormity of his plan to reorder society, Marcuse pretended …