lenin said it.
it's in the air now, that POTUS is a Stalinist, all the weekend kneeslappers had a Stalin joke
[there's a really good bill burr bit about it actually from like 2years ago somewhere]
the bannon-cannon is an avowed Leninist
they have to switch narrative style now, 'look over there, A NAZI' doesn't work as well when the speaker is, yaknow, themselves a NAZI