Donald Trump evokes Cold War to boost campaign

Trump has called for a return to the "ideological test" for immigrants introduced in 1952

There is another major force feeding the Cold War overtones in the 2016 campaign -- Putin

Washington (CNN) — The Cold War is suddenly back as a hot topic in American politics.

A quarter-century after the fall of the Soviet Union handed the United States victory in a titanic ideological duel, the era's mythology is echoing through a presidential election taking place in a new age of fear and threats.

the Soviet Union and the more recent peril of Islamic terrorism.
"In winning the Cold War, President Ronald Reagan repeatedly touted the superiority of freedom over communism and called the USSR the Evil Empire," Trump said in a major speech in Ohio. "Just as we won the Cold War in part by exposing the evils of communism and the virtues of free markets, so too must we take on the ideology of radical Islam."