Communism is once again stalking the United States.  The threat is a combination of subversion and espionage from the Communist regime in China, as well as from the Democratic Socialists of America—who are, in fact, not democratic and not socialists.  Yes, America faces danger.  Yet in a time such as this—call it Cold War Two—it’s heartening to know that we’ve faced similar threats before, internal and external, and prevailed.  Although, of course, we should have reacted more quickly, and firmly, than we did.  So with an eye toward doing better this time, let’s take a look at what went wrong, as well as right, in Cold War One and then sum up the lessons. Communism erupted in the Russian Revolution of 1917, when Lenin’s Bolsheviks overthrew the small “d” democratic government of Alexander Kerensky (Tsar Nicholas II had abdicated earlier that year; the communists didn’t overthrow an autocrat, they overthrew a democrat).   For sure, the people attracted to communism despise democracy; according to Karl Marx himself, communism is the dictatorship of the proletariat.  Of course, once in power, communist cadres are happy themselves to be the dictators. In the first few decades of the 20th century, enthusiasm for communism—among

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