[rsynnott]

> To be fair, I’ve never seen socialized healthcare conflated with communism.

> I'm a republican who is also opposed to public healthcare and I understand it isn't communism

You know that guy who leads your party? Large, orange, shouty? He's conflated it with communism, repeatedly. You should perhaps consider paying more attention.

[hunterhod]

I think for myself and do not just adopt whatever view happens to be espoused by a party leader. I'm sure he may have conflated socialized healthcare with communism at some point, but my original point remains that most of the republicans I know do not believe such things.

[rsynnott]

> but my original point remains that most of the republicans I know do not believe such things.

That's _a little different_ to the original claim never to have seen it conflated with communism.

[hunterhod]

The point also remains that I haven't seen socialized healthcare conflated with communism. While it wouldn't surprise me if Trump said it, I have not personally seen it.