The ideological foundations of U.S. foreign policy have neo-Trotskyite foundations. Hatred of the USSR since the time of Stalin was the primary motivation for Trotskyists to the point where a significant faction considered the USSR and Stalinism rather than America and capitalism as the major obstacles to world socialism. This faction was co-opted into the Cold War and has provided the ideological impetus for U.S. foreign policy ever since.
When Michigan’s Senator James Couzens died in 1936, leaving $34,000,000, the title “richest man in Congress” passed to Old-Guard Republican Congressman Chester Castle Bolton of…