Rift on the right: life without the red menace.

Nation, The, April, 1990 by Corn, David

Communism may be dead, but anti-communism is alive and kicking-at least, within certain conservative circles. But since some on the right are willing to let go of the Red Menace, a split has been growing within the movement, as was demonstrated at the recent three-day Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington.

On the second morning an angry Howard Phillips took the microphone in the Regency Ballroom of the posh Omni Shoreham Hotel. "Our leaders are intoxicated by a spirit of premature self-congratulation which has clouded their judgment and blinded their eyes to ominous reality,' he warned a hundred conservative activists. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is running a 'sting" against the West, according to Phillips, chairman of the...

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