Sarah A. Hoyt always articulates the issues clearly (if verbosely). Her background in communist Portugal helps her recognize troubling trends here. This piece points at why “respectable” people attacking “conspiracy theories” on the right—always the right—is so troublesome. She is correct: It’s past time to speak up.

Sarah A. Hoyt

For fifty years now, the way to signal you were upper class was to repeat at best euro-socialist and at worst outright communist shibboleths about how bad America was, how backward, and how great everywhere else was.