McCarthyism stalked my family. Its paranoia contains a lesson for Trump’s second term | Richard Sennett
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Dec 28, 2024, 2:00 am102 ptsTrump’s eerily familiar evocations of the ‘enemy within’ may be harder to shake off than the man who targeted my parents The rise of Donald Trump aroused in me an old fear of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Both McCarthy and Trump rose to power as demagogues who fed on the American public’s fear of…
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