Is This Tomorrow? (1947)

The USA has been under attack from within its borders for a very long time. Those of us who are old enough to recall the McCarthy “Witch Hunt” of the 1950’s will probably think that time is long gone.

But it isn’t.

Outside the Pentagon there was a battle starting up all over again set to rage just as it had during the Truman and Eisenhower presidencies. Whose intelligence was accurate? Whose was truthful? Who was trying to manipulate the White House and who believed that by coloring or twisting fact that he could change the course of history? John Kennedy was leading a young administration capable of making extraordinary mistakes. And there were people at the heart of his administration whose own views of how the world should work were inspiring them to distort facts, misstate intentions, and disregard obvious realities in the hope that their views would prevail. Worse, there were those, deep within a secret government within the government, who had been placed there by the spymasters at the Kremlin.

Birnes, William J.; Corso, Philip. The Day After Roswell (p. 51). Atria Books. Kindle Edition.

Philip Corso was writing about the early 1960’s. The implied threat of the Kennedy Administration culminated in JFK’s assassination, 2 months after he sought public cooperation with the Soviet’s in the Space Race (and other technologies).

The dream died on November 22, 1963.

You can read the reason for his assassination between the lines.

In 2016, Putin (and the Russian Communist Party) got his candidate elected, against all odds, to the Presidency of the United States. But when it came time to relinquish the position in early 2021, the lines of the conflict blurred: who were the patriots, who were the insurrectionists?