Reflexive hatred of socialism/communism has been on the way out for a while. The Cold War has been over for decades, and so there's a lot less national interest

Reflexive hatred of socialism/communism has been on the way out for a while. The Cold War has been over for decades, and so there's a lot less national interest in demonizing the USSR and its policies; that stuff is now endemic to a narrower political circle. Even if that weren't the case, it arguably never really applied to local shared spaces like libraries, churches, schools, and so on. None of that stuff looks like our idea of a Soviet-style command economy to anyone except the most zealous anticommunist crusaders.