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>But I think part of it what goes on is that people flip ideologies but they don't change their psychology. So Chambers was a snitch or errand boy for the communists, and then when he became disillusioned with that, he became a snitch and errand boy for the other side.

>David Horowitz is another example.

Another very good (and often overlooked) example of this is former CPUSA member Bella Dodd. Surprised she doesn't get mentioned more because she snitched on A LOT of people during McCarthyism. Dodd was an Italian-American immigrant who joined CPUSA in 1934 when Earl Browder was running the party, largely because she was attracted to Browder's "communism is Americanism" speech and felt being a party member would win her validation from others. After Browder was (rightfully) purged from the party in 1946, Dodd found herself uneasy around the militant Stalinists like Bill Foster who were now running the party again. Eventually, Dodd got purged from the party at the end of the decade for being too reactionary. Shortly afterwards, she was introduced to Catholic evangelist Fulton Sheen who brought her back into the Catholic Church, had her unlearn her communist beliefs, and convinced her to snitch on her former comrades when the McCarthy hearings were heating up. Most of them people she ratted out were public school teachers from the teachers' union who had been CPUSA-affiliated. She won all sorts of praise from the American right and became a mini-celebrity of sorts. But the point is, Bella Dodd was a self-righteous pickme girl when she was in CPUSA, and she was a self-righteous pickme girl after she became a Catholic revert and snitch.

This essay sums up her story and gives insight as to why she flipped from left to right:
https://files.catbox.moe/ao0yvh.pdf

A few years ago a right-wing Catholic professor wrote a book on Bella Dodd which was nothing but simpling for her:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03brZN9BunI