Old world fear, we are all afraid! No stupid we know history
In the 50s they laughed at William F. Buckley, Richard Nixon and others for saying Stalin and Soviets had agents here undermining us, sabotaging us and leaking our secrets-—while Stalin was a harmless old uncle over there. Black singer Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger supported the Commies.Later: tens of millions were found to have been deliberately sgarved to death in the Soviet Union by diversion of food trucks and trains away from opposition held areas Stalin hated. Also death camps and murder squads killing millions. Some uncle.
More laughs to come: silly American right wingers believed Mao was a mass murderer and so was Fidel Castro. Folk singers,movie stars, night club comics, college teachers and columnists laughed at the stupid alarmist conservatives. Little Red Book Mao books popular on campuses. The right wingers were right; tens of millions were killed by attacks within China and against Tibetans and others by Maoists.
The anti-Trump laughter at these NPR cocktail parties and CNN gatherings of the elites must be deafening. They will see how wrong they, too, were about the commies.