[sappy]

except McCarthy was proven mostly correct by the Venona cables

[RobbyS]

Funny that the world says so little about the Verona cables. But as Seymour Lipset says in “It Didn't Happen Here” the Communists were part of the New Deal Coalition. They were everywhere in the government, from the White House to the smallest government agencies, and of course were part of the Manhattan project. Why this historic commonplace is so little discussed, even by Conservatives, is instructive. They remain embarrassed by the collapse of the Soviet Union. I suppose it chills them that the total power they seek ended in such failure. But we tend to forget that the Communist Party in China continues to maintain itself in power by similar means. But how long can a dictatorship of the Proletariat sustain itself?