Rust never sleeps; the Left never stops distorting. I cannot count the number of times that I've gone to the sources to find some truism of the Accepted Narrative is completely unhinged from What Actually Happened.

E.g., Hiss was guilty.

There were Communists and Communist spies in the American government and non-governmental organizations.

Communists killed millions.

We know this from Communist sources. This pithy quote sums up my conclusion:

"I guess I can start out by observing that progressive scholarship really isn't scholarship in the traditional sense of the word, by which I mean the production and subsequent increase of human knowledge and, indirectly, the distribution of its benefits. Instead, progressive scholarship is simply progressives fleshing out and expanding upon the various bullshit narratives they've invented."