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it's a term used only to signify ingroup versus outgroup in the context of right wing debate nerd circles.
it's the political equivalent of 'slut' or 'hipster' in the way those terms functionally mean 'person who is having more sex than me' and 'person who is cooler than me'
Basically it's what liberals call anyone to their left
Tag yourself, I'm the guy with the mini guillotine!
im thick horse daddy with the mao poster
Banjo dude.
I've yet to see a conservative call anyone a tankie. They're content to just say communist as a pejorative.
Maybe not online MAGA types but I've seen "regular" conservatives in real life use it to refer to communists
Same.
iirc Boris Johnson called Corbyn a Tankie back in like 2017 or so and it sees occasional use by other british conservatives
Edit: found an article about it https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/oct/05/boris-johnson-jeremy-corbyn-labour-left-tankies-trots-conservative-conference