When America won the Cold War, some Democrats suddenly found it expedient to pretend they’d always supported America’s efforts to break the totalitarian grip of the Soviet empire. But it wasn’t true.

Anti-Americanism, poisoning the Democratic Party from the late 1960s onward, meant its adherents increasingly opposed U.S. global leadership and equivocated about the horrors of what President Ronald Reagan, with moral clarity, dubbed the “Evil Empire.”