A large portion of our society thinks so:

https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/letters/letter-blm-is-a-r...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blackburn-rips-blms-trained...

https://www.foxnews.com/media/giuliani-stupid-communist-de-b...

> A large portion of our society

As evidenced by three anecdotes?

Do you really think that is a rare sentiment?

Americans calling people they don't like "communists" got to be the funniest thing ever....

"Fox news", "Rudy Giuliani", I mean... if you can't see the obvious political propaganda here I don't think we can find a middle ground. The same people who say "antifa" is an organised terrorism group but won't say anything about the capitol insurrection...