Scoop Jackson is anything but representative of the Democrat party today or even in his own day. He was a maverick in their ranks and in no reasonable sense represented anything in their mainstream. Truman did fight the commies fairly consistently - not great or all out, but about as good as one could expect from a Dem and certainly better than his old Soviet-cuddling boss Franklin Roosevelt. The same goes for Kennedy who did stand up to the commies (cuban missile crisis), one of the few Dem supporters of McCarthy, and was eventually killed by a communist (Oswald) or many communists (Castro's minions), depending on if you take the standard version or the conspiracy fringe version.
LBJ an anti-communist? Not a chance. He fought another faction of communism abroad while doing his best to install his own version here at home. It was called the Great Society.
In other words, Sullivan's attempted rebuttal does nothing more than prove Coulter's rule by citing the few exceptions (some of them genuine exceptions and some anything but).
I'm afraid Ann is a little rough on that theory. She says that Truman has the same anticommunist bona fides before the 1946 Republican takeover of Congress as Bill Clinton had welfare-reform bona fides before the 1994 one. Namely, none at all.She says that Truman and Dean Acheson snubbed Churchill after his "Iron Curtain" speech, and offered Stalin the opportunity to give a rebuttal speech in America--and a ride on the USS Missouri to get here . . .