Dave VolekMcCarthyism & Trumpism
The USA was set up for Trump 2.0 to take care of all his friends.
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&id=472
Matilda T. ZombieQueenReview: Changing Channels, City Lit Theatre, Chicago
https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/chicago/ch868.html
#theater #Theatre #Review #Writing #mccarthyism #redscare #Chicago
McCarthyism & Trumpism
Fortunately, the Republicans did not go in the direction of "helping" rank-and-file Republicans:
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Nonilex#LauraLoomer, gadfly & #Trump favorite, told…Michael Scherer in an interview…that “we need to make McCarthy great again.” And she told The New Yorker that McCarthy is “one of the most underrated & underappreciated political figures in history.” #JackPosobiec, a prominent #FarRight influencer & #ConspiracyTheorist, has posted that “McCarthy didn’t go far enough.” #SteveBannon, in a recent phone conversation with Breland, put it even more starkly: “We need to do #McCarthyism to the tenth power.”
(The tide of public opinion turned against McCarthy when he was challenged by the U.S. Army’s chief counsel Joseph Welch with the famous question “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”—a rocket at the time that by today’s standards of political discourse could be considered something of a softball.)
#McCarthyism #Republicans #GOP #FarRight #WhiteChristianNationalism #extremism #radicalization #USpol
But now comes a small, influential group of hard-line right-wingers who believe that, in the words of one popular meme in such circles, “McCarthy was right”.
…The case for McCarthy’s rehabilitation centers on the contention that the senator has been unfairly maligned & was correct in his choices of both his enemies & his tactics—& that, if anything, he didn’t go far enough, limited as he was by the relative decorum of the times.
For decades, Sen Joseph R. McCarthy’s name has been used as shorthand for the opposite of the aspirational ideal of civilized #US #politics. In the way that “Kleenex” has become interchangeable with “tissue”, #McCarthyism, for many, is an eponym for the unjust, reprehensible use of political power. Indicating that anything resembled the tactics & smears of the late Wisconsin senator has been enough to suggest that such behavior was out of bounds, with no rightful place in our modern politics.
These people are freaking #Nazis
‘We Need to Do #McCarthyism to the Tenth Power’
#Conservative influencers are pushing for a return to the dark days of 1950s #inquisitions.
By Ali Breland
#Republicans #GOP #FarRight #WhiteChristianNationalism #extremism #radicalization #USpol
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/03/joseph-mccarthy-revivalism-trump/686258/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxVNPz5daoFVze3UgD8h8rtk
Egberto WilliesWhen Was America “Great”? Exposing the Myth Behind MAGA Nostalgia
A caller questions when America was “great,” sparking a deep dive into racist nostalgia, elite power, and the myths behind MAGA’s longing for the past.
#CivilRights #ClassSolidarity #democracy #EconomicInequality #IndependentMedia #JEdgarHoover #MAGA #McCarthyism #PoliticalCommentary #ProgressivePolitics #racialCapitalism #RoyCohn #USHistory #WhiteSupremacy https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oIO
Ed LynchAmerica, *immediately* after WW2: "Hey, you know who we should come for first?" #McCarthyism
