If you mention this, then you are a communist. If you want give everyone health insurance you are a communist. If you are for minimum wage increase you are a communist. If you shake hands with a communist it makes you a communist. And on it goes.
We went through all this some 50 years ago with the John Birch Society (Tea Party) and Joe McCarthy (Ted Cruz). And these days it’s even worse because they have Fox News and all of AM radio.