"For the record, the Communist Party USA took offense. “I just think it’s an absurd way to cast a shadow over his colleagues. It’s kind of a sad ploy,” said Libero Della Piana, a vice-chairman of the national Communist Party, according to Politico.“It’s just guilt by association taken to an extreme,” he said. He also said there are no members of Congress who are members of the Communist Party – not even avowed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent, from Vermont."