US EditionMcCarthyism then and now
The campaign targets critics through firings, threats, and doxing, echoing 1950s McCarthyism with faster spread via social media and increased impact on everyday Americans.
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'The enemy within': Donald Trump just launched a new era of witch hunts
A modern-day political inquisition is unfolding in “digital town squares” across the United States. The slain far-right activist Charlie Kirk has become a focal point for a coordinated campaign of silencing critics that chillingly echoes one of the darkest chapters in American history.Individuals who have publicly criticized Kirk or made perceived insensitive comments regarding his death are being threatened, fired or doxed. Teachers and profess…
"Is America entering a new era of McCarthyism?" the Financial Times wondered this week. The business newspaper was referring to the period in the 1940s and 1950s when a paranoid American government feared communist sympathies everywhere. This led to a merciless witch hunt against journalists, artists, scientists, and civil servants. It is still considered a dark period in American history. Things haven't reached that point yet in Trump's America…
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McCarthyism then and now
Then U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin during the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954. McCarthy stands before a map which charts what he said was Communist activity in the United States. (Photo by Getty Images)Driven by “a lineup of disgraceful racial bigots and American fascists,” a divisive political crusade by conservatives in the United States was “like a gigantic, tumultuous hurricane” that “dominated the thoughts and actions of the America…
Political Witch Hunts and Blacklists: Donald Trump and the New Era of McCarthyism
A modern-day political inquisition is unfolding in “digital town squares” across the United States. The slain far-right activist Charlie Kirk has become a focal point for a coordinated campaign of silencing critics that chillingly echoes one of the darkest chapters in American history…
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