"Critics have argued that, in making her case, Schrecker has underplayed the undemocratic nature of the Communist Party USA.In a reply to an essay that Schrecker and Maurice Isserman wrote in "The Nation" in 2000, John Earl Haynes quoted the leader of the UDA, the predecessor of the politically progressive ADA, who stated that "an alliance between liberals and Communists [would] betray liberalism's bedrock democratic values."