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HCR makes a good argument that Trump is a modern day version of Joe McCarthy. I definitely
see it. Americans of the 1950's did come to their senses in regard to McCarthyism, but it
took some time. Modern day Americans are taking considerably longer to reject Trump and MAGA.
Maybe it's like working out, we collectively need to feel the burn,lol. Hurricane season
starts down south today. Missouri and Kentucky have recently experienced the "pull
yourself up by your bootstraps" ethos of MAGA in regard to FEMA help ( as in: none ) under
their beloved leader Trump. Western North Carolina also being told to fend for yourself in regards to the aftermath of rebuilding from a hurricane.
So, maybe, just maybe, mother nature sends some stark reality that might cut thru the
fairy tale bullshit that Trump spews.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-31..."I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition,” Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine told her colleagues on June 1, 1950. “It is a national feeling of fear and frustration that could result in national suicide and the end of everything that we Americans hold dear…. I speak as a Republican, I speak as a woman. I speak as a United States senator. I speak as an American.”
"Wisconsin senator Joe McCarthy, who was sitting two rows behind her, led a faction that had cowed almost all of the Republican Party into silence by accusing their opponents of “communism.” Smith recognized the damage McCarthy and his ilk were doing to the nation."
"Senator Smith wanted a Republican administration, she explained, but to replace President Harry Truman’s Democratic administration—for which she had plenty of harsh words—with a Republican regime “that lacks political integrity or intellectual honesty would prove equally disastrous to this nation.”
“I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear.”
