The actual Patrice Lumumba was a communist goon being groomed in 1960 to be the Fidel Castro of the Congo, and of Africa.
But that was back when we resisted communist takeovers, and actually fought them. Now we have a communist POTUS and mayors of cities named for communists.
You’d be surprised how many of the American people are communist-inclined; Nikita S. Khrushchev understood this as early as 1959.