Did you not study economic systems in school? The people you list are socialsists, not communists That said, Sanders is a product of the same Russian meddling that brought the Tangerine Tyrant to power. His senior political adviser in 2016 was Tad Devine. Devine had worked with Konstantin Kilimnik, a known agent of Putin's on getting Russia friendly candidates elected in the Ukraine. Manafort and Gates worked closely with Devine and they all worked for Putin. Sanders spouted the same populist rhetoric designed to divide Americans against each other as did the Tangerine Tyrant. Their messages were similar, one from the Right, the other from the Left. The goal of the person driving their messages was to destabilize America, so that an extremist could be elected. .AOC and Tlaib are minor political players whose popularity is stoked by the racists who rail against them on a daily basis. They are the bogey-women the extreme White-Wing needs to scare people.