Nothing new.
The Soviets spent a huge amount of time and resources many years ago to infiltrate our system at several levels, up to and including national political positions. This has been largely written out of our history as a paranoid hallucination, despite confirmation from old Soviet files and other sources.
To listen to some people, you would think communism is largely mythological and that there are no Marxists or collectivists at all in America any more. Ironic, considering the idea of state control of every aspect of our existence has been mainstreamed as a political policy.