By Miranda Devine
Remember when Hollywood activist Jane Fonda chortled that the coronavirus was “God’s gift to the left”?
That was back in October 2020, at the height of lockdowns and school closures, when the country was reeling from the violent BLM-Antifa riots over the summer.
It was no time for celebration, but clearly Hanoi Jane knew something that most Americans didn’t pick up at the time.
A new book out this week explains what leftist Fonda seemed to know back then, perhaps from her papered-over days as a Communist collaborator during the Vietnam War.
While we were sleeping, in 2020, America went through a cultural revolution that was instantly recognizable to escapees from totalitarianism like Xi Van Fleet, who had lived through the terrors of Mao’s China as a schoolgirl.
Her book, “Mao’s America,” is a five-alarm warning of the menace in our midst.
She is alarmed that most Americans do not see clearly what she does, that “the root of today’s ‘woke revolution,’ not to mention its ultimate goal, is Marxism followed by Communism.”
2021 woke-up call
You might remember Van Fleet as the plucky Virginia mom who burst onto the national stage in 2021 with a 60-second speech to the Loudon County School Board, warning that critical race theory and similar woke ideology being shoved down kids’ throats echoed Mao’s murderous Cultural Revolution in the China of her youth.
Her kids were grown by then and she was shy, but she felt a duty to warn the adopted country she loved about the menace it was facing