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Republicans’ rabid anti-communism is a sign of their political weakness
Trump and his supporters are cranking up the McCarthyite rhetoric in a desperate bid to make sure not even one ‘Maga’ loyalist stays home on election day, says CJ ATKINS

JOE McCARTHY would have fit right in at this year’s Republican National Convention.

Denouncing communists — both real and, more often than not, imaginary — was bread and butter for the 1950s red-baiting senator from Wisconsin. 

At the dawn of the cold war, the bogeyman of the Soviet Union was the stick used to beat back a strong labour movement and a growing left in the United States. 

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