It wasn’t all sweetness and light back then either. I see Paul Robeson in Native Land being advertised next to Cagney in Yankee Doodle Danday. Smaller ad for the commie Robeson, but the lefties had a choice, too. Nowadays, Yankee Doodle Dandy would be considered pornographic or fringe and Robeson would be shown in schools.
We won WWII, didn’t we?
I think we won WWII (sarcasm) but the spirit of Communism and socialism began to really creep in after WWII.