The same thoughts about “sleeper cells” have occurred to me as well. Don’t forget that the communists are the tip of the spear in the Democrat party. They have been subverting and taking over institutions for many years. Even Senator Joseph McCarthy tried to expose the way that communists entered ALL kinds of groups and organizations. He was the man who knew too much and had to be destroyed. A great book to read about McCarthy is: “Blacklisted by History” by M. Stanton Evans. McCarthy was taken down by the political/media axis of his day. At that time people were very naïve about the media.
And even that long ago, the media had close enough to a monopoly on the media and academia to smear McCarthy and his work, revising history as it was being written. Even young conservatives don’t know the truth about McCarthy, not surprising when the right almost immediately caved to the narrative and stood back while he was demonised. He was “uncouth” to the NE country-club GOP, so they just didn’t really care. It is hard to even get to the truth with documents in order to show young quasi-conservatives the truth about McCarthy, what he did and why it needed to be done. Even they have bought into the “red witchhunt” narrative when it comes to McCarthy. And stupid movies like “The Way We Were” don’t help. They think that’s truly historical, especially when it’s been buttressed all their lives by what they’ve been taught. Too bad this generation isn’t rebellious enough to try to seek the truth for themselves, instead of taking the pervasive leftist narrative and premises for granted.