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'This is modern McCarthyism': Furious Dem nails Republicans on hidden purge hypocrisy
1 month ago

'This is modern McCarthyism': Furious Dem nails Republicans on hidden purge hypocrisy

Raw Story  

Call it the Catch-2025. "If this is really about making sure that we have qualified individuals inside the federal government," she asked, "Why is the president-elect choosing absolutely unqualified Cabinet secretaries to be at the head of every single agency?" She called the requirement "blacklisting" and likened the bill to policies pushed by the notorious Sen. Joe McCarthy, the notorious …

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Letters to the Editor: The return of McCarthyism? That’s what Trump backers’ Project 2025 sounds like
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: The return of McCarthyism? That’s what Trump backers’ Project 2025 sounds like

LA Times  

To the editor: Project 2025 has been recruiting and vetting prospective government employees for an anticipated Republican presidency. But the idea that current federal employees can be scrutinized and assessed, the results published in a list based on their personal ideas and beliefsm and then the employees subsequently reclassified or fired, is a page directly out of Joseph McCarthy’s playbook. …

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We’re living in a new age of McCarthyism, says author Patrick Nathan
6 months, 3 weeks ago

We’re living in a new age of McCarthyism, says author Patrick Nathan

LA Times  

“People ask me when I think the apocalypse is going to happen, and I tell them that we’re in it,” says Patrick Nathan, the author of “The Future Was Color.” On the Shelf The Future Was Color By Patrick Nathan Counterpoint: 224 pages, $26 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, …

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Commentary: McCarthyism makes us agents in our own destruction. ‘Fellow Travelers’ shows how
1 year, 1 month ago

Commentary: McCarthyism makes us agents in our own destruction. ‘Fellow Travelers’ shows how

LA Times  

The second episode of “Fellow Travelers,” Ron Nyswaner’s steamy melodrama of queer life in midcentury America, concludes with Langston Hughes’ “Kids Who Die,” a poem to sting the back of your throat. For “Fellow Travelers” protagonists, Hawkins “Hawk” Fuller, a suave State Department functionary, and Tim Laughlin, a bright-eyed Irish Catholic idealist, the lousy peace of the Cold War becomes …

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Canada’s McCarthyism and the spies stirring a yellow peril scare
1 year, 8 months ago

Canada’s McCarthyism and the spies stirring a yellow peril scare

Al Jazeera  

Anonymously but very effectively, they’re peddling racist tropes about the loyalty of Canadians of Chinese descent. Back then, the looming threat was called “the yellow peril” and the creeping boogeyman was China’s Chairman Mao, who school children, like me, were taught had sinister designs to overrun our not-so-far-away island. Beyond leaking “top secret” stuff about Canada’s compromised-but-not-compromised elections, the unnamed …

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‘Hold them for treason’: Christian nationalist MAGA pastor promises to revive McCarthyism if elected to Congress
2 years, 9 months ago

‘Hold them for treason’: Christian nationalist MAGA pastor promises to revive McCarthyism if elected to Congress

Raw Story  

South Carolina's Mark Burns, a televangelist, Christian nationalist, and pro-Trump Republican candidate for Congress, is promising to revive McCarthyism if elected. Burns says he will "revive" the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which for decades was used to blacklist private citizens suspected of disloyalty to the United States or of holding communist or fascist beliefs, or ties to foreign enemy …

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Biden’s Bank Regulation Nominee Is Facing A 'Red Scare McCarthyism' Campaign
3 years, 2 months ago

Biden’s Bank Regulation Nominee Is Facing A 'Red Scare McCarthyism' Campaign

Huff Post  

Saule Omarova speaks during a September 2018 Senate banking committee hearing titled "Fintech: Examining Digitization, Data, and Technology." The Senate Must Defeat Communist Saule Omarova For Comptroller of the Currency - The Capitol Switchboard is call today & tell your Senators to vote NO on Communist Saule Omarova, President Biden’s nominee for Comptroller of the Currency https://t.co/vrgewQVvTU — Richard Viguerie …

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The new McCarthyism: Inside the China conspiracy theory that helped fuel Trump's Capitol riot
3 years, 7 months ago

The new McCarthyism: Inside the China conspiracy theory that helped fuel Trump's Capitol riot

Raw Story  

Early on the morning of Jan. 6, Samuel Fisher, a self-described dating coach, sent a friend a photo of a rifle and pistol through Facebook Messenger. Alongside the MAGA, Gadsden, "America First" and Kekistan flags, the Trump supporters who swarmed around the Capitol on Jan. 6 also carried homemade signs portraying Biden as a stooge of China. "To top it …

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