Despised by commie Liberals, he means. Most Americans revered him during his war with Mao.
“...the Chiang-Soong clan and their supporters have long been convinced that they and Chiang’s government were the victims of a demonization campaign orchestrated by the international left starting in the early 1940s. By the 1970s, the American right had also largely abandoned Chiang’s cause in its zeal to win China's support in the U.S. confrontation with the Soviet Union.”
I am a little ignorant about this subject. Didn’t Chiang Kai-shek have Mao on the ropes when FDR’s commie State Department sent Marshall to China to stop Chiang from finishing Mao off?