What a rubber mallet is to the knee, the claim of malfeasance is to the relationship of the Left to their enemies. If anyone disagrees with them for any reason, they are talking before they are thinking, and then doing without thinking. This is the purpose and outcome of Agitation Propaganda: training people to react with all the nuance, poise, class, and substance of dogs salivating for their next steak.
Were Communists seeking to subvert our cultural order, and did they deploy considerable treasure, countless hours of effort, and countless agents of influence to do so? Unquestionably. With the fall of the Iron Curtain, we know this to be true. Most of the North Vietnamese Generals have written memoirs. And I think we can reasonably assume those written from exile speak the most truth. We know the KGB spent 4x as much money influencing opinion as it did intelligence gathering.
Was it paranoid to suspect this? No. It was in fact what was happening, and was the logical and largely inevitable consequence of the ideology which drove–and continues to drive–the Communists.
These people lie as easily as they breathe, and so one cannot say that because most Communists do not use that word, that they have ceased with their pathological anti-Humanism.
Bill Ayers has not changed one core belief since the 1970’s. There is no reason to suppose those who surrounded and supported him have either. Some cults are a one way trip. Once in, you never get out.
Thus when I read a supposed conservative citing this propaganda piece, which gave us that phrase, I can conclude they are part of the problem.