Steve Chapman: How Republicans went soft on communism
If you had told Ronald Reagan in 1988 that in 30 years, the president of the United States would be chummy with communist dictators in China and North Korea, eager to please a brutal Kremlin autocrat and indifferent to the needs of our military allies, he might have said: That's what you get for electing a Democrat.
Today's Republicans make up a party he wouldn't recognize. For decades, the Russians and Chinese dispatched spies and
