What Happened the Last Time a President Purged the Bureaucracy
The widespread political purges of the early 1950s echo clearly today. Seventy years ago, the reasonable pretext of hunting ...
The Media Spawned McCarthyism. Now History Is Repeating Itself
Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture ...
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Don’t compare Trump’s US to Nazi Germany. These three American moments are more apt
The second Trump presidency recalls Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch hunts, and the American Nazi movement of ...
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Trump’s ‘Trans Scare Founded on Cold War’s ‘Lavender Scare’
Trump, through his strategy of fear and hatred, sacrificed the bodies of trans people, along with undocumented immigrants, as ...
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The Media Spawned McCarthyism. Now It's Happening Again
This climate of fear recalls the anticommunist paranoia of the 1950s and its crucial turning ... With that speech, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy seized the nation’s attention and would ...
On This Day: Senator launches 'McCarthy era'
Wis., charged the U.S. State Department was infested with communists, touching off the infamous "McCarthy era." ...