Two things struck me about the mad rant the Gazette published called “The sovietization of America.” The first was that the author is trying to raise the ghost of J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, who saw “the Red threat” as the biggest danger to America.
This led him to hound such dangerous “communists” as Martin Luther King, John Lennon and many others — and to submit a plan to President Truman for the illegal arrest of 12,000 Americans he thought were “disloyal.”
The second was this muddled passage toward the end: “Fomenting disgust toward America’s ‘enemies of the people’ was on the daily checklist for every KGB disinformation agent. These deeply bigoted convictions are obvious contents the left’s world view.” (I guess he meant “contents of the left’s world view,”’ but who knows?)
The only person in American politics who uses the phrase “enemies of the people” is Donald Trump. That’s what he routinely calls the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN and any other news outlet that tries to report facts.
David Ball
Northampton