in front of my me and the wife (who's a demoncrat-I know, I know...).
I crouched down in front of him and said in my best ghost story voice "They are evil people who want to control your life, put your Daddy in prison, and suck the blood out of your wallet."
He looks at me and says "You mean they're like Mosquitoes?"
I laughed and said, still in scary Dad voice mode, "They are more like vampires."
He started to look scared, so I told him that vampires weren't real, but Demoncrats were. Then my wife asks "What about Republicans?" (she was getting a little irked, as her family are all hell or highwater Demos).
The boy looks at me, and I say "They'll do what the Democrats are doing, but it will take five years longer and cost half as much. But the Democrats hate America."
He knows The Ride of Paul Revere by Longfellow word for word.
Another year or two and we'll go out, I've got a Remington rolling block .22 for him (an Improved Model 6).
Tim