Thanks for the ping. Friedman is the crest of the wave that will be coming forward as the democrats seek to destroy our country.
I can vouch for this:
The apologists and protectors of these countries [Soviet Union and Red China] were legion in the op-ed pages, and often on the editorial pages of the NYT and WP (as the two most influential papers in the country).
We called them anti-anti-communists, because they disliked Americans who had a beef with Communism, much more than they disliked what was happening behind the Iron or Bamboo Curtain.