Reply #1: actually it reminds me of proto-neocon Daniel Bell

[MisterP]

who said in the 50s that the "distortions" of ideology had ended with the purge of the CPUSA and New Dealers, and con and lib could be one big happy family fighting the Cold War. the 50s was the age of "objectivity" and the "friendly" spreading of "America" through things like the CIA's Encounters magazine, which tried to produce a generation of liberal anticommunists in Europe. The world was divided into "the clearsighted Clear Thinkers" of the Vital Center (the "anti-ideological," moderate, centrist, "democratic," free-thinking, real-American, consensus-seeking) and "the Blinkered" (Nazis and Reds, usually conflated). The same worldview is repeated by 2000s and 10s clash-of-cultures theorists and the more, ah, hysterical "new atheists": the democratic, open, tolerant, secular(TM) West--whether capitalist or social-democratic--vs. the scary, unthinking, "tradition- and authority-based" dregs of Earth: Islamists, Chinese herbalists, Adorno, postmodernists, critics of Konrad Lorenz, Napoleon Chagnon, and Charles Murray, non-Arian Christians