non-Marxist moderates (al- though, and large, they were not the ones with the guns).
Most important, many American journalists were "on a guilt trip," atoning for what they saw as the United States' past mistakes in Nicaragua and its debacle in Vietnam. Jumping on the Sandinistas' bandwagon, much of the press was all too willing to show how the United States, in backing Somoza, was wrong again.
"Archie Bunker and the Liberal Mind" by
Christopher Lasch, in Channels of Com-
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