after a 28-year hiatus to ask that millions of Pennsylvania votes be thrown out — essentially because they’re icky. During his appearance, Giuliani forgot the names of the judge and the opposing counsel and didn’t know the relevant legal standards.
Where the McCarthy deja vu really kicks in is the way this farcical war on our intelligence and institutions resembles the most deranged and paranoid expressions of anti-communism. It’s not just calling Biden the president-elect that’s denounced as treason: Any criticism of the tactics used by Trump and his team is not tolerated. Total loyalty to Trump, his loyalists and their lies is mandatory regardless of the facts.
Anti-communism was a serious thing, despite McCarthy’s excesses. Conservatives — and liberals — were justified in seeing it a worthwhile struggle against a threat to civilization. But it now seems that a large number of conservatives have convinced themselves we are in a similar struggle with evil forces today — and that Trump is the weapon holding them at bay.
When anti-communism took on a paranoid conspiratorial hue, responsible conservatives drew lines. After the John Birch Society accused President Eisenhower of being a Communist plant, historian Russell Kirk famously scoffed, “Ike’s not a Communist, he’s a golfer.”The difference today is that the gatekeepers no longer have the authority they once had.
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opinion No surprise that both were nurtured with the doctrine of bullying, blaming, berating and bigotry. Our Nation has been deeply injured by such disturbing public figures.
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