[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I don't recall hearing the phrase "non-communist."

I think the writer is coining the phrase as a method of damning the least offensive Democrats with faint praise. To be "non-communist" is also, in his scheme, non-anti-communist--i.e., no part of the solution to the real problem.

A failure which is damning in anyone aspiring to be a leader.

[unspun]

What is concerning in America at this point, is not only Marxists per se, but how all sorts of materialist, egocentric philosophies and motivations have crept into our national life -- ever pushing out the God-based reality understood by our nations's founders.