Commies have been around forever in the US. Think of how many there would be in the 60s and 70s when boomers were younger. Commies have been around in Hollywood, the media, corporate america, etc. forever. Communism is ALWAYS popular with idealistic young people and then a huge portion of the country is going to try to either make money off them or get their votes. Race relations have always been sitting there to use for their benefit. Furthermore the Soviet Union was trying the whole time to infiltrate the US and do this to us.

If the commies were really like this the whole time we would've been finished years ago. It would have been easier decades ago to manipulate people into doing the Great Reset with the media than it is now when everyone watched a few channels. If CNN was lying like this in the 90s people would've had not many other ways to get redpilled. They could've run this playbook with a pandemic a while ago or stolen elections to seize total power.

No I think this is different. The commies of the past were people with a bad idea, but they lacked the current version's shamelessness, viciousness, cult-like stupor of the current kind, and it was never this illiberal. I'm not sure these people even really believe in communism, they just believe in destruction and hate. Or you could say what they believe in the fascism that China currently is. They're almost more like nazis than the US commies of the past.