Your insightful comment:
Yes. It may “Pass” in a way we don’t like.
Indeed, the present-day threat is as extensional to the survival of the Republic as the situation in 1860. But in another way your observation should be augmented with the insight that it will never pass.
It will never pass because the problem is one of soul sickness which is the eternal condition of fallen man rather than the transient Nixon- hating obsessions of that generation's Arthur Schlesinger.
In short, the problem of Alger Hiss of two generations ago, or of Ruth Bader Ginsburg of today, is that they would be God. That utopian obsession has been in our DNA since Genesis where we learn that the struggle will never end as long as humans are bent on playing God. In today's orgy of iconography in which we are creating a new human God in Ruth Bader Ginsburg it is essential to remember Whittaker Chambers' observation that, as intelligent as Ruth Bader Ginsburg was, that intelligence was essentially animated to displace God.
