I do see Bushes' Nazi contributions and Al Gores' "communist sympathies" of unlike characters, but that is a complicated distinction. Conflating communism, fascism and/or terrorism, and contiguous scares, are necessary tricks to those who want to keep their power, appearances, intentions and the past hidden. Soviet communism was a lousy experiment - and it was kept running just as long as it was useful to certain US internal politics. (Now they need terrorism to keep the circus going.) It is very cheap to dismiss any social vision with milder social extremes and some attention to collective effects as Marxist or communists. Even Adam Smith was a proto-Marxist when it came to labour relations. Various "Marxist" ideas will be ridiculed for a long time, quite unfortunately for the upcoming crises of resources' boundaries. There is also a high risk that those ideas will be pushed in a desperate manner again.

Fascism makes most sense as a reaction from higher financial industrial classes to the threat of communism - not so much a "freedom threat" (yet), but the kind of existential threat that Russian elites had to experience. So they supported Hitler as a useful kind of "socialism"; and you have to appreciate the support that Hitler got. He served only nine months of mild prison regime (of merely five years sentence) for a failed attempt to overthrow a government. He had attention of many influential figures. He had industrial support, media support, and saw no orderly opposition. As well known, his political and industrial partners were popular on Wall Street and US political circles. Hitler would had gone nowhere without that kind of support that, in particular, senior Prescott Bush gave. Masses just follow what the elites approve. Why is there so little attention to Nazi financiers? Because financial classes are supposed to do no wrong; only little Eichmans must be at fault.

I don't see the same scale of damage (or benefit to Moscow commies) that Al Gore Sen could possibly have done. Al Gores' vision might had been relatively Marxist in the post-McCartian pool of American politics; but they were not necessarily utterly wrong or selling out. In fact, more disappointingly, Al Gore Jr might be just playing (and liking) an American looser role, for what we know.