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True, but maybe not as vehement as when Joseph McCarthy went hunting for reds.
Funny thing about that... His right hand man was Roy Cohn who was a big inspiration to... The orange idiot of course. Small world sometimes.
I'm guessing you're not old enough to remember Ronnie Reagan calling the Soviets "the evil empire." Tensions were incredibly high in the early 80s, and the Republicans were super hawkish about it. I was a kid at the time and convinced we were all going to die in a nuclear holocaust.
I was there and remember the same. You're saying that was worse than the McCarthy Hearings?
I wasn't saying things were flipped long ago, just an wild flip.