Leftists had to have been astonished to hear President Putin's opening remarks at the Trump-Putin summit.  Russia's president proclaimed, "The Cold War is a thing of the past[.] ... The era of acute ideological confrontation of the two countries is a thing of the remote past – it's a vestige of the past." No wonder the American and European left are screaming over the triple reference to the past.  No wonder also that old Cold Warriors like John McCain are apoplectic.  That is because Putin's words and the Trump-Putin summit possibly signaled the beginning of the end of the left-leaning ideological hegemony that has influenced American international policies for many years. The fact is that Putin expressed hopes for rapprochement with the West after the fracturing of the Soviet Union, assuming that once the communist party was almost obliterated and a new religious-political paradigm began to take hold in Russia, the...(Read Full Article)