This is a prime example of how contrarian centrists are the useful idiots of the far-right.https://twitter.com/abigailmarone/status/1400831527995514883 …
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Jeet Heer Retweeted Abigail Marone 🇺🇸
This is a prime example of how contrarian centrists are the useful idiots of the far-right.https://twitter.com/abigailmarone/status/1400831527995514883 …
Jeet Heer added,
This is a terrible take. This is the equivalent of saying liberals who recognized that Hiss was lying, and that the Rosenbergs were guilty, were useful idiots, rather than people interested in what was true rather than what was politically convenient.
The Cold War liberals who vastly over0hyped the Soviet threat beyond its reality were in fact the handmaidens of reaction. Truman's loyalty oaths prepared the way for McCarthyism.
Eastern Europeans would probably disagree that the threat Stalin posed to democracy was “overhyped.” Regardless, that has nothing to do with the fact that going to the wall to defend people who were absolutely guilty of what they were accused of was an absurd thing to do.
Cold War liberals did not just claim Soviet domination of Eastern Europe was wrong or that Hiss/Julius Rosenberg were guilty. They also claimed there was an international communist movement threat to take over the world & domestic spying was major problem in 1950s. Both wrong
We can argue over the definition of "major," but the fact that Klaus Fuchs, the Rosenbergs, Harry Dexter White, the Silvermaster ring, and Hiss were all funneling information (and, in White's case, printing plates) to the USSR was undeniably a problem.
All the major spy rings were broken by Verona. By the time of Truman's loyalty oaths and McCarthyism all you had was security theatre (not unlike post-9/11) for an overwhelmingly phantom threat.
States normally spy on each other -- the United States, for example, spies on Angela Merkel. Not a good idea to turn such spying into justification for loyalties oaths and purges that cost thousands of innocent people their jobs, as Truman did.
"We're the good guys so it's okay when we do it" is a principle of nationalism, not a rational way to think about foreign policy.
A state can both work to root out foreign spies and refuse to engage demoralizing purges and blacklisting. It's not a binary choice.
Who intentionally killed more of his own people, Hitler or Stalin? So yeah, we were the actual good guys.
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