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The Return to McCarthyism
Almost seventy years ago, an obscure senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, used fear as a means to initiate widespread panic and intimidate the innocent. Fear can do this to people. Fear makes the rational become irrational, the innocent become guilty, … Continue reading
Posted in American History, General Essays, Government
Tagged Demagoguery, McCarthyism
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