Trump Embraces ‘Enemy of the People,’ a Phrase With a Fraught History<br />Mr. Trump said that This is the connotation for anyone who lived in the Soviet Union or knows<br />anything about the Soviet Union, which Donald Trump obviously doesn’t — or he doesn’t care.<br />William Taubman said that I don’t know if Trump has ever read Stalin, but if he wants to destabilize people, he is doing it perfectly.<br />As leader of the Soviet Union, he demanded an end to the use of the term "enemy of the people"<br />because "it eliminated the possibility of any kind of ideological fight." "The formula ‘enemy of the people,’" Mr. Khrushchev told the Soviet Communist Party in a 1956 speech denouncing Stalin’s cult of personality, "was specifically introduced for the purpose of physically annihilating such individuals" who disagreed with the supreme leader.<br />Mr. Trump said that I have never heard it used in Russia except in reference to history and in jokes.
