Winning the Cold Civil War

I don't see how this is meaningfully different from any other period of social conflict in the US. This article could just as well have been written about the struggle for gay marriage, the Civil Rights Movement, desegregation, women's suffrage, ending slavery, or any other period of struggle for equality. Also interestingly, "communism" and "communists" were the pejorative used by reactionaries against civil rights advocates, desegregationists, and women's suffragists. Maybe this resonates with the older, more reactionary generation that grew up in the cold war, but this language (and set of ideas) seems to hold less purchase as time goes on.