This was the beginning of the Cold War, an ideological war against a common enemy, international Communism. All Americans are united in the fact that the outside menace is Communism, godless Communism. And see how it spreads. And you have to understand Communism is not just a military threat. This is a system that is antithetical to everything Americans hold dear.
Communism threatens that.
We're a God-fearing country. So all the things that America was, an upwardly advancing, mobile, competitive, God-fearing, capitalist society, Russia isn't. And I think it's that feeling that we're being faced by that common threat that brings Americans together and creates this orthodoxy, homogeneity, tribalism, whatever you want to call it. And it's a glue that holds the culture together pretty strongly. And it can be in a sense pretty stifling for a lot of people, especially young people.