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Originally Posted by August
We got all of those types here too although some may call themselves just Socialists.
And now you got me wondering, just who are the Stalinists in your government?
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The American political spectrum is very narrowed down (a fact most scholars including Americans agree on). Americans have a tendency to call everything left of the center "communism". In general Americans have an interesting tendency to use the term "communism" without understanding what communism is.
I'm sure that there is the occasional communist or leninist in the US. None of the major politicians is anywhere near that, however. The democrats as a whole are right leaning centrists, very much like the German CDU or the French LR. Sanders and AOC would be called "social democrats" in Europe, very moderate left-wingers (and, btw, much better at that than the current social democrat chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz).
On the other end of the spectrum many "politicians" which are considered to be "staunch conservatives" in the US would be called fascists and/or far right extremists in Europe (and rightfully so...).