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The new McCarthyism
Spectator World ^ | 5 Aug 2021 | Roger Kimball

Posted on 08/05/2021 6:42:50 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Are you now or have you ever been a supporter of Donald Trump?

I am wondering when we are going to have Congressional Committees grilling people about such matters. I suppose they could, in homage to a certain senator from Wisconsin, be called the House and Senate American Activities Committee. Nancy and Chuck should preside. They could share some of that expensive chocolate ice cream that the always well-coifed Nancy likes as they root out people who say things they don’t like and vote for people with whom they disagree.

I’m sure they would get a lot of academic support. Just a week or so back, one professor suggested that criticizing St Anthony Fauci or other government officials should be a federal hate crime.

Why not? If you object that such a move would be unconstitutional and therefore against the law, expect to be met with pitying looks. After all, the President of the United States, in flagrant violation of his oath of office, just extended the CDC’s eviction moratorium after it had been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. ‘The bulk of the constitutional scholarship says it’s not likely to pass constitutional muster,’ Biden admitted, but he decided to do it anyway. After all, this whole ‘separation of powers’ fetish is so, well, so 18th-century. We’re better than that now. We know about The Environment. And Systemic Racism. And Masks for the Little People. And the Evils of Donald Trump.

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1 posted on 08/05/2021 6:42:50 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

I have no shame.


2 posted on 08/05/2021 6:49:40 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Rummyfan

Come and get me, Big Guy!


3 posted on 08/05/2021 6:52:12 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Rummyfan
Oh, great. Another whiney, bitchy complaint against what the Communists are doing against us. I bet the German Social Democrats had great one-liners and zingers...before the Nazis beat the shit out of them and threw them into Concentration Camps.

Or the Mensheviks had great quips and comebacks against the Bolsheviks...before Stalin had them all executed and thrown into lime-filled ditches.

4 posted on 08/05/2021 7:02:42 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (The best slaves put their own chains on )
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To: Rummyfan
McCarthy was right.

Our government and institutions have been infiltrated by communists. Now they're working to get rid of anybody who supports freedom and our Constitution.

5 posted on 08/05/2021 7:13:51 PM PDT by rllngrk33 (It seems the soap box and ballot box have failed, it might be time for the bullet box.)
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To: MuttTheHoople

You get it.

L


6 posted on 08/05/2021 7:15:48 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: rllngrk33

You are correct.


7 posted on 08/05/2021 7:48:45 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789! )
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To: rllngrk33

McCarthy was right.

Our government and institutions have been infiltrated by communists. Now they’re working to get rid of anybody who supports freedom and our Constitution.
............................................
The Marxism now wreaking havoc in America is a direct result of the demonization of old Joe and the HUAC.


8 posted on 08/05/2021 7:50:56 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat ("It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." Ben Franklin)
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To: rllngrk33

You got that right.
He was right, he just went about it the wrong way.
And now our enemies are using the same tactics.
Hopefully it ends poorly for them too. Political price must be paid.


9 posted on 08/05/2021 8:00:33 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Rummyfan

That gigantic 3.5 Trillion ‘Reconciliation’ bill is Chuck full of evil. I still don’t know if Nationalizing Elections is stuffed in there but if the RATs can sneak it in, they will.


10 posted on 08/05/2021 8:21:39 PM PDT by Nateman (If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
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To: Rummyfan

Are you now, or have you ever been reluctant to undergo dubious gene therapy?


11 posted on 08/05/2021 8:46:09 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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