• Rakonat@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      … The new deal was passed 10 years before the McCarthy era. FDR was dead before McCarthy even started his red scare.

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        23 days ago

        I was being over broad. The first red scare was after WW1 and was a prominent feature of Republican politics from that point onwards. If you look into the resistance to the new deal, it was the same red scare nonsense that McCarthy rode as a wave.

        Did the Trump era start in 2016, or did he simply usurp a rising fascist current in American society? I personally think it’s more of the latter than the former. Likewise with McCarthy, but it’s fair that I was corrected.