[JohnGalt]

The author seems to suggest that nationalism is synonymous with the 'right' and then suggests that somehow the Right won the the post-30s culture war.

That is about as ahistorical as it gets.

[netmilsmom]

Sorry, I went to public school. Could you please explain further?

[Maelstrom]

Those are both problems since the Left in America has not always been so consistently anti-American as it has since the 60's and the Right lost the culture war and only since 9-11-2001 has begun to join the battle.

Forty years and more of a one-sided battle.

[Hill Street Blues]

Galt your comments about the article bespeak a lack of knowledge of history. Your specious all or nothing proposition is quite apparent as well.

Perhaps you missed his comments about the 1930's. In the context of an era in which the United States of America was indeed very close to becoming a communist country - any communist who may have been in government post-Pearl Harbor was of relatively minor concern. In the 1930's the WHOLE government was almost communist.

Do you really think that all communist influence would be expurgated in a few short years ????

And indeed considering what was done - quite appropriately to communists in the post WWII era - how can you even suggest there was no change? This is absurd.
Was there a HUAC investigating communists in the 1930's as there was in post WWII?

Tremoglie then suggests that Viet Nam changed this patriotic anti-communist fervor. It did. Communist ideology and conspiracy theories were much more palatable because of Viet Nam. Read David Horowitz.

You are making specious arguments born of a misreading of the material.