re: #97 Nyet

Precisely, Nyet!

When I first encountered Josh in 1975, he was set up by Scoop Jackson and George Meany to run a front organization “Coalition for a Democratic Majority” which pushed Meany’s anticommunist Social Democratic stances.

When Jimmy Carter was elected, Muravchik and his fellow SDUSA members continually attacked Carter as a wimp. They wanted Moynihan to run against Carter in 1980. They doubled down on attacking Edward Kennedy’s challenge. I know because I set up and ran Kennedy’s 1980 Pennsylvania campaign. Once Reagan got in, Muravchik and his fellow Social Democrats, led by Jeanne Kirkpatrick jumped to the GOP because their hatred of Communism trumped everything else.

What’s even more amazing is that Social Democrats, USA was all that was left of the Socialist Party…