Trump Is Building the Blue Scare | The Ezra Klein Show
From The Ezra Klein Show
This is McCarthyism 2.0. Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Trump administration has been speed-running an attack on the “radical left.” And the tactics it has been using are darkly reminiscent of the Red Scare of the 1940s and ’50s. So what can that period teach us about the current moment and what the Trump administration might do next? How far could this go? Corey Robin is a political theorist at Brooklyn College. He’s an expert on McCarthyism and the author of the book “The Reactiona...
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- Charlie Cook (person)
- Reichstag fire (concept)
- Red Scare (concept)
- McCarthyism (concept)
- Joseph McCarthy (person)
- Hollywood (location)
- Department of Justice (company)
- Antifa (concept)
- Cory Robin (person)
- Brooklyn College (company)
- The Reactionary Mind (book)
- Palmer Raids (concept)
- Mitchell Palmer (person)
- Woodrow Wilson administration (company)
- Emma Goldman (person)
- Russian Ark (product)
- Bolshevik Revolution (concept)
- Klay Risen (person)
- Red Scare (book by Klay Risen) (book)
- Walter Kowski (person)