[Stultis]

Just reading John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr's 2003 book, In Denial: Historians, Communism & Espionage. It does an excellent job describing how leftists, for decades and decades, and even to this day, continue to defend and excuse traitors, and smear truth tellers, even in the face of conclusive evidence.

I knew about much of this, but it remains shocking and almost unbelievable. (Not least, how much tacit support the leftist revisionists receive from "mainstream" history orgs and from textbook writers.)

[Stultis]

This history, btw, also gives lie to the original "New Left" claim that they weren't pro-Communist, they were just "anti-anti-Communist." If that claim were true, they would have, and would, only focus on debunking genuine excesses and errors by anti-Communists. But they didn't and they don't. It's the fingering of the REAL perps that always pisses them of the most, and the attempted revisionism is carried out not in obscure extremist rags, but in mainstream "progressive" mags like The Nation.

[livius]

I’m reading “Blacklisted by History” by M. Stanton Evans. It’s about McCarthy and the situation leading up to the hearings. The facts are jaw-dropping, and one interesting thing was how complicit the US government under Roosevelt and then Truman was in covering up the communists within, blocking investigations, etc. The State Department was particularly riddled with them, including some in policy-making positions.