Arguably, one of the most underreported stories in US politics is how a group of former Communists were able to apply Leninist infiltration methods to colonize “movement conservatism,” and then the Republican Party itself, while building an alliance with arms merchants, corporate plutocrats, and Christian Zionists, with the effect of turning the American right-wing into a political arm of the Likud Party.  And now they’re effectively colonizing the Democratic Party in the same manner. This gives them the ability to maintain a complete political hegemony, while puppet mastering both ends of the culture war, and successfully deflecting “radicals” from both sides.