“Lenins body is still on display in Moscow, the Russians hold Soviet throwback parades every year, outside Moscow and Saint Petersburg it still looks like the USSR, and your friends are hanging up Soviet flags and restoring Lenin statues in occupied Ukraine.”
Still doesn’t provide a link to their ambitions, just the past. By that logic I guess one can claim that the people and government with Confederate Flags want to bring back slavery, by that standard.
No, you would need a recent governor of one of those states to on record saying that the failure of the South to secede from the Union was a geopolitical tragedy.