Well she’s right about that, at least.

https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/08/29/abc-news-rejects-kamalas-hot-mic-request-n2400287

the Stalinist retreads like Chomsky even though he styled himself an Anarchist, it took Horowitz, a former fellow traveller to really anatomize him, so he attacks Huntington for his role in the hamlets in the Neo Mandarins, but the 80s he’s comparing Reagan to Hitler, I’m not making this up,

Perlstein a leftist in good standing did seem to understand something of the enemy, he was facing, so he spent a generation dismantling the public face of both Nixon and Reagan, as with Frances Fitzgerald a figure which is probably out of note, actually she should be shunned for how she misread everything, first in Vietnam then everywhere else,

in the pop culture lane we probably find Joan Didion and her drive bys first on her native California, then Central America and then Miami, which I didnt recognize in her portrait, but then I wasn’t supposed to,

McCarthy is as responsible for the second Red Scare as the Republicans are for the Klan and Southern racism: i. e. not at all. He was riding a wave, and the Dems of today blame it all on him to airbrush their own role in it.

McCarthy perhaps not in the most tactful ways did pick at prog dominance in the Agencies, was there a perfect way, tell us how, the Communists used the depression to seed the apparat, publications like the New Yorker for instance set the mood,

https://leadandgold.blogspot.com/

when I read the Wise Men the first effort by Thomas and Isaacson, I saw the contempt they had to anyone to the right of say Adlai Stevenson, of course the notion that anyone like Whitaker Chambers would have anything to tell us, much less Nixon,

they saw Nelson Rockefeller as their cat spaw, in the party, the Mitt Romney of his day, with more heterodox habits,

(And this is why it’s Leftist misdirection to blame the Right for “McCarthyism”. While McCarthy himself was a Republican, the House Committee on Un-american Activities was usually chaired by Democrats during the “blacklist” era.)

But it’s exactly that which created today’s GOPe. The Republicans who did well in that period 1935 – 1997 were the people who used their minority position strategically to extract appropriations. And the people in the leadership positions now disproportionately got their start in that time or came up when people from that time were numerically dominant. Many of them mastered the art of mouthing conservative principles when needful, combined with excellent constituent service and the bringing home of much pork in barrels. Consequently they rise high on the powerful committees and are used to letting the Dems get what they want so that their own cronies can get paid.

The Democratic Party has no enemies to the Left and the GOPe has no friends to the Right. They backstabbed Trump, the TEA Party, and Gingrich and no doubt will do the same if Trump is elected again.

George HW Bush certainly surrendered 100 yards easy, to keep the metaphor alive,
with the tax compromise, with the peace dividend which was squandered, of course Bill Clinton was worse, by a geometric factor,

Obamacare was secured by a whole host of strategems, including McCain’s kabuki resistance, McConnell’s active compliance against the Tea Party, was Vietnam, an exercise to diminish the patriotism of the people, instead what as ostensibly the goal to fight Communism, the way it was conducted
suggests that, as it was with the last Expedition into the East, this phase ended with the Kabul capitulation and the Al Hijra,

As Michael Malice points out: “The enemy class is not made up of impressive people.” — Rufus TF

I’m not going to disagree with you or myself, however I do believe that we have to careful with that type of thinking.

Briefly, there are a few impressive thinkers on the left (IMO), usually behind the scenes, and sometimes they have great and negative influence.

The Harris campaign is pathetic because she is a very pathetic intellect, and probably the rot of power and privilege has taken its toll over the years. I also believe that she has gotten some terrible advice over the years about her presentation style, but I don’t think that is the dominant factor.

It’s in the news today that the Harris campaign staff is in shambles. Again and again. She can’t manage a small group of subordinates.

Now I’m considering “recent” history, say a century, where there have been brilliant actions from the left with deep and very long lasting negative consequences for what was the American ideal. Republicans fight battles and skirmishes, while the left thinks about the long multi-generational war.

Assassinating Pres. McKinley. The public education system, primary and secondary. The federal income tax. Unionizing the federal workforce. Obamacare. The federal seizure of the student loan system.
I’m sure there is plenty more I can’t remember off the top of my head.