Mastodawn

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/116228195090903682

Besides being blacklisted by Hollywood, director Herbert Biberman was jailed, and accomplished screenwriter Michael Wilson and producer Paul Jarrico fled to France to escape #McCarthyism. Actress Rosaura Revueltas was arrested. Their stories here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wilson_(writer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Biberman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jarrico

𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟑 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟑,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦.

"Freedom of speech" huh? You might as well scream into the void.

#USpol

Matilda T. ZombieQueen Mar 10

Review: Changing Channels, City Lit Theatre, Chicago
https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/chicago/ch868.html

#theater #Theatre #Review #Writing #mccarthyism #redscare #Chicago

Dave Volek Mar 8

McCarthyism & Trumpism

Fortunately, the Republicans did not go in the direction of "helping" rank-and-file Republicans:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&id=472

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#mccarthyism

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Nonilex Mar 7

#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.”

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Nonilex Mar 7

(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

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Nonilex Mar 7

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.

#McCarthyism #Republicans #GOP #FarRight #extremism #USpol

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Nonilex Mar 7

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.

Nonilex Mar 7

These people are freaking #Nazis

#GiftArticle

‘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

The McCarthy Revivalists

Conservative influencers are pushing for a return to the dark days of 1950s inquisitions.

The Atlantic

Egberto Willies Feb 18

When 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.