vanquished and the irrelevant

Threatened by a serious challenge to the sacred center of its legitimacy and by the danger of mass conversions within the elite, the twentieth-century American state proclaimed its Communist subjects “un-American” and vigorously defended itself for as long as the threat remained serious. “The doctrine of tolerance” is reserved for the vanquished and the irrelevant. - Slezkine, pg 181

for vanquished and the irrelevant - yes, but not for the deplorables ☝