Russiagate Can’t End Well for the Left
Liberals are using Russiagate to gin up nationalist fervor and anti-Russian paranoia. It'll only backfire.
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Bulletin is a chronicle of socialist comment and analysis from Jacobin’s Seth Ackerman.
At the height of the sensational 1948 HUAC hearings on the Alger Hiss case, a reporter asked Harry Truman if the “spy scare” was a “red herring” meant to distract public opinion. Truman agreed that it was. The Republicans were “slandering a lot of people that don’t deserve it.”
Even as credible evidence mounted that Hiss, the polished diplomat and uber-Establishment WASP, had worked for years as a covert Soviet agent, a defiant Dean Acheson refused to accept it. Hiss was a “man of character,” he told Congress, and “we remain friends.”
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