After the war ended, nativists transferred the enemy category from Germany to Bolshevism.

Evidence

In the vanguard now, sounding their alarms and rallying their hosts, were the patriotic societies. Two especially, both products of the war, clutched for leadership. The National Security League, the most powerful of the preparedness societies, had broadened its scope during the war to include Americanization in a general campaign of nationalistic agitation. In December 1918, it shifted gears, moving into a country-wide drive against Bolshevism; and Americanization leaped to the top of its agenda. “The battle to make the country safe is not won,” it announced. “The enemy but wears a different guise.” — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1539

Categorization

• XREF: Direct evidence for the reader’s core hypothesis: when the manufactured external threat (Germany) disappeared, the movement immediately manufactured a new one (Bolshevism) — ‘the enemy but wears a different guise.’ — connects to: Groups reattached war-cultivated solidarity to new enemies after the old one vanished — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1324
• SEED: The phrase ‘the enemy but wears a different guise’ is a perfect one-line lens for essays on how solidarity regimes recycle threat after threat.

Broader Connections

• Groups reattached war-cultivated solidarity to new enemies after the old one vanished #corroborates (0.90) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1324