Why on earth would it be big news that someone is a marxist? These types of concerns do nothing save reek of ignorance as they miscolor perceptions of the world you are in right now. US is a Marxist country since the civil war:

same ruling class and offspring as today. marx wrote anonymously for all the magazines lincolns crew read. marx and lincoln were pen pals.All the pilllars in the communist manifesto to transform a capitalist country to communism have been instituted here in some form a century