Axelrod and his family are dyed in the wool communists, especially his mother. I wouldn’t discard the allegation that the families roots include the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. More intriguing to me is the reporting of a Fresno man that during a business dinner in Moscow in the 1990s the hostess, a strong communist, spilled the beans that there was a black man with Kenyan father and white mother who was already being groomed for POTUSA and his name was Barrack. That foreign elements/persons were factors/influence in USA government goes back to the days of Wilson who with European banking interests created the Fed Reserve. Even in the days of Eisenhower when communists were set on burying this Nation a la Kruchev the notion that these foreign agents were here was being dismissed and McCarthy was pillaged even by Ike. I have suspicion that the people in Moscow were in touch with people in the USA,very possibly a Chicago-Axelrod connection. Chicago and its sinister politics resulted in Obama being POTUSA.
The connection with the Bolsheviks is a straight line.
Trotsky was a moderate in that world.