The response from a reader to Jonah on A. Mitchell Palmer (he was okay because he “jailed Bolshies”) was basically on target. Conservatives should not join the liberal-left in attacking Palmer and bemoaning the “Red Scare” after World War I. The so-called “Red Scare” was more accurately a “Red Threat,” with bombs going off on Wall Street and a lot of alien subversives running around who deserved to be deported by the US government. By trashing Palmer, the liberal-left (and, alas, some on the right) seek to discredit anti-subversive activities in general, including the Red threat of the 1930s-1950s and the domestic Radical Islamist threat today.