There was no name calling or strawmanning. You called someone a communist. You failed to point out a single policy that would be considered communist by any conventional standard. That's a prerequiste for your assertivestatement You then tried to pivot and used cherry picked quotes to make it about extremism without any onjective metrics to back up your opinoons. Stop feeling bad for yourself for saying that you failed to back up and is just blantantly untrue by any.
It's not a good look. Especially when you have to make up lies about the people pointing out the false statements you made because you couldn't back them up.
And no "my friends think I'm smart" isn't a good argument.