But if his detractors examined his record, they would see that he is not the ideological foe they portray him to be.
By the 1960's, all were confronted with a new generation of ideological foes on the New Left, who have since found their way to history's dustbin.
The United States was firmly established as the dominant global power, along with its ideological foe, the Soviet Union, in close competition.
The S.E.C. may well have ideological foes in Congress.
And conservatively ruled Jamaica is teamed with its ideological foe, the leftist government of Grenada.
Their experience in Russia apparently taught them to disdain concessions to an ideological foe.
Now, it is trying to restore links with former ideological foes such as the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain.
Already die-hard Communists inveighed against what they perceived as surrender to the ideological foe.
One's ideological foes often want what they (foolishly) think is best for our country; it's their (horrible) politics, not their sincerity, that discredits them.
It was a courteous gesture among African leaders, particularly among ideological foes, that would have been "unthinkable a week ago," an American diplomat remarked.