Americans forget just how tense the Cold War was. In triumph, there is often complacency, as if the outcome was foreordained. But two decades ago, conventional wisdom was anything but triumphalist. Too many elite opinion makers and policy wonks said the United States could never hope to defeat the Soviet Union; the best we could do was keep the Russians contained and maybe cut a deal. Well, 25 years ago this month, Ronald Reagan said nuts to that.

OK, so I'm not thrilled with Michelle Obama's recent pronouncements. Luckily, National Review is around to come up with something sillier.

Barack Obama, you see, might've been a baby Communist. I give you Lisa Schiffren:

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