GOP Leaders Want to Take America Back … to McCarthyism
You’d think the GOP wouldn’t want to revisit that disgraceful chapter of their heritage, yet they are proudly pushing McCarthyism 2026.
It’s one thing for someone like me to say that the Republican Party has dived into the abyss of political delirium.
But it’s another thing when the party itself confirms its collective delirium for two whole days in a made-for-TV political talk-a-thon. Their theme was: “Bring Back Joe McCarthy!”
Let’s not forget what a horror McCarthyism was — a 1950s descent into totalitarian repression fomented by Joe — a brutish and slimy Republican senator who terrorized America for a decade with a vicious “red-baiting” crusade to crush liberals, unions, minorities, government employees, gay people, professors and others he and his rich backers hated.
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Indeed, given Joe’s direct parallels to today’s White House, you’d think GOP strategists wouldn’t want to resurface that disgraceful chapter of their heritage, but there they........
