"fascistic disposition" paragraph

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> You read "those among us" as Americans, now; I read it as people, in all
> times and places. When Pynchon writes, three pages later on, "recall that in
> the present-day United States", that's the first time that he narrows the
> scope of his commentary. 

Not sure what you mean here. Doesn't he narrow the scope when he begins
talking about how the novel was received and read by US readers when it
was first introduced to American readers during the McCarthy period?