>> That’s why there’s no definition in my list for media use of “Communist/Far-Left”, because it doesn’t exist in their world. To them, Communist tyranny is moderate-liberal mainstream. <<
A good example was the Hillary Clinton vs. Bernie Sanders primary. The media normally doesn't like to use the term liberal or left-wing, but was forced to do so because Sanders publicly identifies as a proud socialist and said so many times. Sanders wasn't even a real Democrat, but a leader of a marxist third party movement running as a Democrat solely to get ballot access. So they identified him as the liberal or left-wing candidate in that case. Hillary Clinton, who was NEVER a "moderate" Democrat and always been a strong promoter of hard-left "progressive" policies, was the "more moderate, mainstream Democrat" candidate.
So the media portrayed that election as a liberal Democrat vs. moderate Democrat, when it reality is was an OPENLY Marxist/Stalinist candidate who wanted to turn the USA into the 1930s Soviet Union vs. a socialist Democrat who just wanted "typical" socialist policies like Universal Health Care.
I just simply called it Communist vs. Stalinist. Ironically, it’s Leaky Leahy the Lush who is more left-wing than Boiny in Merdemont.