Traitors, Trotskyites And The Modern Day Neocon

A brief history of anti-war smears

The United States has a long, storied, but sordid history of treating anti-war activists as if they were un-American, unpatriotic, fifth-column traitors.

Tragically, the debates surrounding the Iran War are no different. To be sure, you can find debates on the substance and merits of war and how it is being fought between good-faith actors. But those seem increasingly rare.

What follows is a brief overview of such periods in our history, and, towards the end, a brief overview of the origins of neoconservatism. Unbeknownst to many, neoconservatism, the ideology that has all but captured the establishment of the Republican Party, has its origins in the far-left, globalist Marxist movement of 1930s Soviet Russia.