The problem with your suggestion, Joe, is that the epithet would probably not persuade, as the recipient, being a statist, would not realize he was being laughed at.
This works along similar lines to why you rarely see a Stalinist smear an opponent as being like “Stalin,” but instead opt for “Hitler,” even though, when compared with Stalin, Hitler killed fewer people and carried out genocides against only one race. Stalin was a Communist, an ideology that statist still strangely have fond feelings for. It rarely occurs to them to see the horror beyond all those “good intentions.”
