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“Since communism was insatiable, and since liberalism… was a ‘collective death-wish,” the Right believe that only it could save Western civilization. … ‘We of the Christian West,’ Bozell declared, ‘owe our identity to the central fact of history - the entry of God onto the human stage.’ It is our task to gild and defend a ‘Christian civilization.’” The roots of Christian nationalism run deep.

“Anticommunism… was for the most part easily assimilated into the conservative credo of the 1950s. Both libertarians and traditionalists discerned in the “God that failed” a case study for their deepest convictions. Communism was a threat to liberty AND tradition. If conservatism in 1955 was an amalgam, anti communism was a vital part of its cement.”

RQ: “In 1945, ‘conservatism’ was not a popular word in America, and its spokesmen were without much influence in their native land. A generation later these once isolated voices had become a chorus, a significant intellectual and political movement which had an opportunity to shape the nation’s destiny.”