Domestic Enemies - The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left

The Washington Times had a very nice feature on 'Domestic Enemies'.  George Washington and America’s other Founding Fathers faced off against homegrown radical leftists after they booted out the British and adopted a new constitution, according to a new book by investigative journalist  Daniel Greenfield . “Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against the Left” (Simon & Schuster 2024) examines how leftist ideology made its way into the U.S. long before the 1960s or even German political and economic socialist theorist Karl Marx. “The Left is America’s oldest enemy,” Mr.  Greenfield  said in an interview with The Washington Times. The book describes the political trials and tribulations of post-revolutionary America starting with President Washington’s first term and the subsequent power grabs and political turmoil that echo in today’s events. “Domestic Enemies” tells of how early America’s political class confronted challenges including stolen elections,...

 

  When I showed up to speak at the American Freedom Alliance Literary Cafe , it was right after the Trump assassination.  People were still feeling the shock of what had happened and my talk, which would have been primarily about my book,' Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against The Left ' took a turn. Domestic Enemies is about the origins of the American Left, but the conversation certainly took a wide-ranging turn from Trump's assassination to the Left's war on America, past, present and, unless we do something more concrete, future. 

For July 4th, I talked to Kerry Picket at the Washington Times  about Domestic Enemies . George Washington and America’s other Founding Fathers faced off against homegrown radical leftists after they booted out the British and adopted a new constitution, according to a new book by investigative journalist Daniel Greenfield. “Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against the Left” (Simon & Schuster 2024) examines how leftist ideology made its way into the U.S. long before the 1960s or even German political and economic socialist theorist Karl Marx. “The Left is America’s oldest enemy,” Mr. Greenfield said in an interview with The Washington Times. The book describes the political trials and tribulations of post-revolutionary America starting with President Washington’s first term and the subsequent power grabs and political turmoil that echo in today’s events. “Domestic Enemies” tells of how early America’s political class confronted challenges including stolen elections...

Over at Legal Insurrection, Leslie Eastman kindly wrote her own review  kindly wrote her own review of 'Domestic Enemies'. As we recover from our Independence Day celebrations and look toward 2026 (the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence), I think it is a great time to shine the spotlight on a wonderful new book  by investigative journalist and columnist Daniel Greenfield. Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against the Left, is a superb review of the early days of this nation to the Civil War in terms of the continuing continuing struggle to maintain personal liberty against utopian visionaries and their power-mongering tendencies. Greenfield’s Domestic Enemies is an engaging and engrossing read. Using well-researched and entertainingly described accounts, he clearly shows the Founding Fathers fought battles very similar to those that we are dealing with today. Greenfield manages to capture the essence of the past, and manages to make it alive in a...

M y friend Daniel Greenfield, the outstanding contributor over at   FrontPage Magazine , is no Pollyanna. If you’re a religious reader of Greenfield’s work, as I am, you’ll know he’s one of the most brutally honest and savage critics of the Left that we’re blessed to have, and in that brutal honesty, he’s credibly accused of presenting current circumstances as dire. To which Greenfield has a defense: Current circumstances are dire. Interestingly enough, though, Greenfield’s excellent new book  Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against the Left   contains a quite optimistic look at the future of America. Greenfield makes the point that the kooks, crooks, and villains who make up the modern Left aren’t very new at all. They’re merely new iterations of an irritating faction in American politics that has been around from the very beginning. We’ve always had socialists, communists, urban machine pols, traitors, and thugs. The ones our Founding Fathers contended wit...

Our particularly American addiction to the   now , the   new , and the   what’s next   means we tend to perceive our political conflicts through the lens of “breaking news,” or at most, the weekly news cycle. It doesn’t help that more and more of us, especially young people, get our news from the ever-advancing timelines of social media, which draw us constantly forward moment by moment, denying us the time to reflect upon events in a broader historical context. But as my brilliant colleague Daniel Greenfield reminds us in his long-awaited first book,  Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against the Left , “current events” is a misleading label for an ongoing, epic political struggle between Left and Right that is actually rooted deep in America’s origins. As every regular reader of FrontPage Mag knows, for many years prolific columnist and investigative journalist Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Fellow and Executive Vice President of Programs at the Dav...