Mastodawn

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

The McCarthy Revivalists

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

The Atlantic

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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.

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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