they would be their reprobates, the paranoia of anti-communist trauner plights and caveman. so the dupes were critical. the american communist party at its peak membership in the 1930's only got to be about 100,000 members. so they could never really get any popular support. to try to get larger popular support for the cause, they had to enlist progressives and liberals. so that's why i will get this. the target the progressive liberal left, but this gets to an important point i want to make on partisanship. they didn't always have success and i appreciate the chance to see this to the conservative audience in particular. there were a lot of good anti-communist liberals and anti-communist democrats who were not duped. and i have got dozens and dozens of examples. arthur schlesinger, jr., wrote a piece for life magazine in 1946, which at that point was along with time probably the largest circulation and all of america, and center said communists have succeeded in hiding their true face from american liberals. the reds are posing a most serious danger to liberals, engaged in