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Historian dismisses Trump Independence Day rhetoric as 'Red Scare idiocy'
Trump’s Red-Scare Theater Is a Cover for Real PowerThe PerformanceTrump used an Independence Day speech at Mount Rushmore to warn about communists, citing recent primary victories by democratic socialists. Historian Doug Brinkley called it “Joe McCarthy red scare idiocy,” and he was right about the function of the speech if not its novelty: this was not an argument, it was a signal. The point was never to describe an actual communist takeover. The point was to manufacture a menace that can be blamed, mobilized against, and run on.Who Has the PowerThe actual institutional power here sits with…
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