Someone has played a rotten trick on the late Scoop Jackson. The legendary senator from the great state of Washington was a committed cold warrior who saw the Soviet Union for the evil empire it was, and until his death in 1983 used all his powers of persuasion to drag the McGovernized Democratic party back to the center, where it had enjoyed its best years as part of the post-World War II bipartisan consensus on foreign policy. And then last week it seemed to have happened—all at once, the Democratic party rose up in unison and declared that Moscow is a threat to vital interests.
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