The New McCarthyism in the age of Donald Trump

Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy’s career was standing until February 1950. A wounded with ambition, strong rhetoric and reality – a injury continued Fall off a staircase It was reused as the “war wound ,, in 1946, Robert Marion La Follette JR Senate. But his rapid anger and disrespect to the rules of established behavior had isolated him.

Therefore, for annual Lincoln Day events, Wheeling was found in Virginia, while the higher profile members of the Republican party were sent to Chicago or Los Angeles. And still, it would be McCarthy’s speech that would change the history.

Why asked McCarthy, II. At the end of World War II, “physically the most powerful nation in the world and at least potentially the most powerful and morally” America – seemingly left behind international communism?

McCarthy had a theory:

As one of our extraordinary historical figures once said, ‘When a great democracy is destroyed, it will not be caused by enemies, but rather not because of the internal enemies’. Since we see that this country has lost every day on every front, the truth of this expression is terribly clarified.

McCarthy attacked President Harry Truman’s foreign policy and claimed that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the secretary Dean Achson had “treacherous” communists. In the advanced copies of this speech distributed to the press, McCarthy said, ım I have a list of 205 here.

McCarthy almost revised this claim. Both in a letter he wrote to Truman the day after speaking, and in a “official ör transcript sent by McCarthy to the congress record 10 days later, The number was reduced to 57. McCarthy branded this visible list during his wheel address and would do it again on the Senate floor. He never opened the list to the public.

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American Network ABC announced in September 2025 that it will stop its publication indefinitely Jimmy Kimmel live! After the landlord’s murder of the right -wing activist and US President Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk’s statements about the close ally.

This was watched by a loyal at a loyal Podcast of a loyal Podcast, which was founded by Trump shortly after returning to the office. Surgeon Suggested FCC ABC may act to cancel its subsidiary licenses.

“We can do this in an easy or difficult way,” he said. “These companies can find ways to change behaviors and take action on Kimmel, or there will be additional work for the next FCC.”

After Kimmel was suspended, Carr said to CNBC: ”We’re not over yet”.

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Shortly after the Wheeling speech, a Senate sub -committee explored McCarthy’s claims and prepared a report that concluded that they were “fraud and scam”. The president of this sub -committee was a 24 -year Senate veteran of the Conservative Maryland Democrat Millard Tydings, who was ready to be re -elected that year.

The campaign ended with a shock defeat for Tydings to select the Republican John Marshall Butler.

Following the complaints of Tydings, the sub -committee of the Senate Rules Committee of the Senate Committee, the sub -committee of the Elections, threw him into the campaign of Butler, McCarthy illegal campaign payments watched He was engaged in butler and with “chastity tactics, for example Doctor photo He depicts Tydings in a speech with the American Communist Party President Earl Browder.

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Thomas Massie, Republican Kentucky representative, voted against the “Big Beautiful Bill” center of the Trump administration earlier this year. Massie was Critic for a long time your management Attacks on Iran. In response, Trump’s allies Super PAC started – Political Action Committees that can do Increase and spend unlimited amounts In the campaign – to underline Massie.

Republican Senator Thom Tillis voted against the bill. He announced later Will not be selected again Trump threatens to support a primary challenge to him next year.

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The anti -communist liquidations proceeded in all directions. Although McCarthy does not really serve, hundreds of careers that investigate the out -of -parliamentary American Activity Committee (HUAC), Hollywood and American labor movement, which is considered under the umbrella of “McCarthyism”.

They were helped by people, Especially in Hollywood“Names name”, implying their colleagues as communists.

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University of California, Berkeley, DELIVERED As part of the federal investigation on the allegation of anti -Semitism on campus, 160 students, faculties and personnel’s management officials in Trump.

Macdi Makdisi, “Obviously, we have no idea what we are accused of. We have no idea how to cleanse our name.”

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“Fear of Lavender”. In April 1950Republican national president Guorge Gabrielson claimed that “sexual perverts that have infiltrated our government in recent years” were “perhaps as dangerous as the real communists” to support McCarthy’s campaign.

Communism and homosexuality It was clearly linked During the Congress investigations – both were depicted as godless, destructive and morally incomplete of the traditional family.

From From 1947 to 1961, More than 5,000 federal civil servants have lost their jobs – only 1,000 men and women at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – on the allegation of homosexuality, and for the same reason, thousands of applicants were rejected for federal employment. Although it has been overshadowed in the dates of red fear, it represents a much greater cohort than rejected for allegedly a member of the Communist Party.

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Donald Trump used his second opening speech to declare “only two sexes”. Following the murder of Charlie Kirk, Trump’s allies influenced the “trans ideology” as a criminal.

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1952 midterm exams after giving the control of the Senate to the Republican Party McCarthy launched an investigation To the Publisher Voice (VOA), which is financed by the public by the public. It was helped by future Trump mentor Roy Cohn. In 1942, VOA was founded to resist the Nazi propaganda and had a meticulous objectivity.

“News may be good for us. News may be bad. But we will tell you the truth.” This was the promise of the first publication. And according to the critics, this neutrality-proof of the turtleneck was instead of American propaganda.

McCarthy could not find any spies. However, after a five -week hearing, the leaders of VOA’s main agency resigned, many employees were fired and an engineer killed themselves.

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In March 2025, the Trump administration ended the financing for independent media agencies financed by VOA and the other state and allowed all VOA employees. Trump said that the movement would enable the taxpayers that they will no longer be in a hook for radical propaganda ”.

In August, Trump began to ignite about 500 VOA staff.

Perhaps wanting to avoid attacks similar to their licenses, ABC News And Paramount’s CBS News Both have chosen to make millions of dollars of payments to Trump by solving the lawsuits imposed by the President instead of taking advantage of the US Constitution’s free speech guards.

Roughly a week ago Jimmy Kimmel live! Removed from the air Washington Post Hot Karen AttiahHe’s been a journalist for more than a decade, because Charlie Kirk has been interpreted but essentially the right quotation.