Fear not, the RINOs in the Republican party are waiting to carry the banner.
And full blown Stalinism is what the democrats are about these days. The "new deal" was simply "fear of commitment".
You're right. Also, environmentalism is an elaboration of Stalinism -- it began as a series of riffs on Rachel Carson, as auxiliary arguments for a command economy based on perceived "failings of capitalism". There are a couple of good essays out there that show that history -- metasearch on keywords "Maurice Strong" and "Rio Conference".
The idea of Rio was to attract liberal and leftist pols to the Green cause and show them the potential of environmental issues to carry them into power again after the Thatcher/Reagan-driven recessional of Leftism. Rio was organized in 1992, so the Left allowed no grass to grow under its feet after the fall of the Soviet Empire, but promptly counterattacked.
Great line, and apt. After all, Old Europe already has the high taxation and regulation that Democrats claim to want. Yet are "progressives" satisfied that they've achieved their utopia there? Hardly. They want actual communism.
Need I remind you that we have a Stalinist all of our own in Juan McCain.
He wants to be a maverick but at the same time he wants to be able to dictate to others in our party what to think, say, write and follow him without question.