Isn't this how older members of the Politburo used to get eased out of power by the Communist Party, back in the USSR?
A little "cough"; a little "cold" ; a little "pneumonia"...?
People have been calling the Dems "Communists" for years.
Just saying.
I recall that in the Soviet Union, ordinary classical music on the radio would abruptly be replaced with dirge-like music and everyone would start asking each other who fell backward into the path of a bullet at rest.