A reference, indeed.
Now someone needs to go full on and call them Communists and Marxists.
They need to make the statement - “you say Democrats aren’t communists - how would they act differently if they were?”
That is exactly what I did in 2008. I called Obama a Communist. When people would look at me aghast that I would call him that, I would quote “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs” and ask what Obama policy goes against that. Granted, it was really more “to each according to their wants”, but I didn’t quibble about that. :-)
Nobody could ever give me a cogent answer to that question. And still can’t.
I’d like to know how Obama would act differently if he was a jihadist. Hating Israel, helping Iran get nukes and money, defying the uprising of the Iranian people, supporting the uprisings against secular Muslim leaders, fighting the ragtag ISIS fecklessly and ineffectively as if it was just for show, withdrawing troops from Iraq to allow Iran and ISIS to move in...