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Soviet Communism’s Collapse Left America’s Far Right Without a Real Foe

Communism a Threat?

Florida congressman Allen West said he’s heard that there are 80 communists in Congress, which Lee Siegel says is just further proof that America’s archest conservatives have no one left to fight with. Plus read more of Allen West's nuttiest comments.

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When Allen West, the Republican congressman from Florida, said he had “heard” that up to 80 members of Congress were members of the Communist Party, but refused to say who they were, I began once again to worry about the declining standards of excellence in American life.

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