Pure hatred. Has to invoke the pro-isolation (pro-Hitler) rallies before WWII, the 1920’s KKK, and everything else to justify his hatred of “American” values in “the white suburbs”
Here is National Reviews’ response.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/446647/rick-perlstein-new-york-times-essay-embarrassing-wrong
How does he defend Pete Seeger, Woodie Gutherie, and other American Communists protesting AGAINST going to war against Hitler?
Woodie’s guitar didn’t “kill fascists” until AFTER the Pearl Harbor attack.
Pete even sang songs about how wrong it was to fight Du Pont’s war for corporatists.