Yeah there’s no reason to split hairs on nomenclature. When a leader has their opposition taken out and shot, and then imposes a totalitarian regime, their original political affiliation was just a means to an end anyway.

Comparing someone to Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, Tojo, Mussolini, the Taliban, etc. isn’t primarily to compare them to the societal leanings of their time, it’s to compare them to how they acted after they gained total, uncontested power.

Let’s hope that in this case those comparisons remain hypothetical.