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Hurting brown people and "communists" is more important than anything else to that 1/3.
btw "communists" are just any people who think the health insurance industry is fucked and way too expensive, and that all people deserve to be treated equally, and that the ultra wealthy shouldn't have as much power as they do.
Has nothing to do with actual communism but the far right propaganda machine is trying to poison any of these ideas with a radioactive word to anyone who remembers the red scare in the 1950s (which, btw, was also a complete bullshit witch hunt because workers were getting too many rights at that point and starting to cut into potential profits of the ultra wealthy cancerous tumors).
It's simpler than that. To them, "communists" and "socialists" are the same, and it's anyone that doesn't think businesses should be able to do anything they want, and any person non-conforming to their personal view of "normal" isn't even human. While most will not, some will even admit both of those publicly.
See: "The Case for Fascism" youtube video just released by Steven Crowder. No need to watch it to give them more views, but it's fucking crazy. You can watch all kinds of reaction explainers on it.
The American Fascist Right was clearly on the wrong side when they publicly called Mister Rogers an "evil, evil man" back in 2007 (notably, 4 years after his death).
https://mashable.com/video/fox-and-friends-mr-rogers-evil
https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-blame-mr-rogers-25e2e90ff05/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-fred-rogers-evil/