Can someone please tell me why he keeps using the word "communism"

[cksmithy]

48. I think the right wing media, Fox news?, podcasters having been calling democrats

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communists for over a year. My Sil's father, after an innocent "don't want our grand children to grow up to become lawyers," (no disrespect to lawyers), one liner joke by my husband, sil's father went a a multi minuet rant about how communists were ruining our state, California. California with a Democratic governor and a Democratic legislature, assembly and senate, our state was completely and totally run by communists. His rant ended with a sentiment like "not as long as communist are running Sacramento, our state capital. This happened during Thanksgiving dinner 2025.

The right wing has been spreading this bs for a long time. My sil is a liberal, but ignores his father, because he loves him. My daughter just ignores him, and when I asked her about his comment a few days later, she didn't even remember or feigned ignorance She says she never listens to him. He is 80, healthy enough, but they don't want to trigger a heart attack.

Short answer is, the has right wing has been calling Democrats communists on line for a a very long time and people are hearing it. The groundwork was laid for trump to call us communists with out any blow back from our so call main stream media.