“We live in the greatest country in the world,” Mercedes Schlapp, a Trump campaign adviser said in her opening address to Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday. “Our democracy is fragile, our democracy is so dear to all of us, our freedoms are fragile, and what we have seen in history, is that those freedoms can be swiftly taken away from the individual. We’ve seen it country after country.”

“Our democracy and freedom is under threat. And we have an obligation to save America from this horrible ideology of socialism,” she continued. “As we know, socialism leads to communism.”

“We stand for faith. We stand for family. We stand for country,” Schlapp said Thursday. “And that is what President Trump does every day when he stands against the fake news, the Democrats trying to take him down, and when he stands against socialism in America.”

She added: “I ask each and every one of you…do not be silent, because a socialist, they want you to be silent. They want to intimidate you.”