[Mila]

"Henry Fonda tacked mostly left in his young adult years, but never as far left as his starring role in The Grapes of Wrath might imply. By the time his daughter was embarrassing herself and her family on the world political stage, he had tacked quite a ways back to the commonsense conservatism of his Nebraska youth. He once said to Jane, according to her own report, that he no longer believed the leftist vision of the world, and thought communism was specious nonsense, or words to that effect."

FWIW From IMBD Biography

"He was one of the most active, and most vocal, liberal Democrats in Hollywood along with Robert Ryan and Gregory Peck. He once said that President Ronald Reagan made him "physically ill", and that he "couldn't stomach any of the Republicans, most of all Richard Nixon.".

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000020/bio

Don't know if any of the above can be believed. Many quotes can, and have been attributed to those who are deceased and proving their accuracy, or inaccuracy, is not always easy.

[beckett]

Perhaps I should qualify my remarks to agree that Fonda stayed liberal all his life, but rejected the hard left views of his young adulthood by the time his daughter became an activist.

I do recall distinctly, though, that Jane Fonda, at a time when she was going on talk shows saying things like, “If the American people only understood what communism was, they’d accept it joyfully,” quoted her father as saying something like, “I’ve thought about what the communists claim, and I just don’t buy it.”