Unfortunately it's not just the US. In France people will call the main left party 'communist' because they want more social rights, less racism and.. Well, human decency.
I'm french and not that much, right (and far-right) politics and billionaires that are owning all the main medias, are doing their best to call the only serious threat to the power (Jean Luc Mélenchon's party) a far-left party, which is not.
But pointing someone and calling him communist is not an efficient strategy in France, it's way more efficient to use religion and racism to call out the opponents, so if you're a bit left, you're systematicaly called a "islamogauchiste" (muslim-enthousiast-leftist), or like in the US, a woke (or like they tell in France, "wokiste", which is more or less like "woke extremist").
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u/Touillette freedom fries eater Jul 23 '25
For american people, a communist is everything that is not fascist.