Why does no one consider the "All Democrats are Communists" people as lunatic fringe?

[Warren DeMontague]

9. I would disagree. I think die-hard Marxism, on the US Political Spectrum, is an outlier position.

And it should not be conflated with "socialism", which can be taken to mean everything from a European-style social safety net to a single payer health care system, which I would agree, the support of which is not extremist.

But the people who bring copies of Das Kapital with them into the voting booths? Honestly, there aren't a lot of them.

Whereas the crazies in the GOP, not only are there a lot of them, but they make up the wholly implacable nutjob base which ANY candidate must appease to survive a primary.