“War was declared”
Yes, in 1984. Since then the CPUSA had a seat at the table in the â˜Dem_Party.
Wiki CPUSA Presidential Tickets (Democrat Party Endorsement)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_USA#Presidential_tickets
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(they hide it now, original content follows)
Here is the link to this page on the Wayback Machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20141231044036/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_USA#Presidential_tickets
1984 was last time CPUSA ran a Presidential Candidate. Since then they endorsed the ComDem Party candidate.
In those days Bernie Sanders was promoting the Socialist Workers Party, ran as elector for Andrew “soldiers take up their guns and shoot their officers” Pulley in 1980. He preferred the Trotskyite approach to Stalinism.