"Still, it’s worth noting that there are at least a faction among those scare mongering CRT who understand the closest parallel to what they are doing is the anti-left cultural purge of the 1950s. And they are pleased at the prospect of bringing back the McCarthy era."
Ahem: Yup.
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the Rs are trying to spin up something effective, now that they are without a Clinton or a black person to bash
"Still, it’s worth noting that there are at least a faction among those scare mongering CRT who understand the closest parallel to what they are doing is the anti-left cultural purge of the 1950s. And they are pleased at the prospect of bringing back the McCarthy era."
Ahem: Yup.
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the Rs are trying to spin up something effective, now that they are without a Clinton or a black person to bash
'...the Rs are trying to spin up something effective, now that they are without a Clinton or a black person to bash...'
Exactly. It's always about 'The Other' with those people. The cast changes over time, but the plot never does.
A good source for the 'red scare' on US campuses in the 1950s is this book--
No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities, by Ellen Schrecker, 1986.
A number of young scholars who lost their positions fled to the UK or Canada and never returned.