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Okay, I'm genuinely trying to understand "the joke." Is it supposed to be "modern democrats do not resemble the bolshevic revolution?" Because it really doesn't read that way.
It is: Republicans keep calling Kamala Harris and the Democrats communists, or saying that what they propose is literally the definition of communism. And they say that communism is the most evil thing. Yet if we imagine a world where communism were just what the Democrats propose to do, the history of communist revolutions and the capitalist fear of communism would look absurd. Here is a humorous re-enactment of an imaginary Russian revolution where instead of Bolsheviks we had modern Democrats. From it we see how ridiculous the Republican fear-mongering around Democratic "communists" is, because the changes they propose are very trivial, and the panic of the capitalists is clearly over the top compared to the danger.
Ok. Then it's just poorly framed. The first frame should have been "America, 2025: a second communist revolution". As written, it reads like boilerplate "not real communism, and it wasn't that bad" revisionist history.
That would spoil the joke by spelling it out. Part of the humor is in discovering that what you're looking at isn't quite what you expected.