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McCarthyism

[ US /məˈkɑɹθiɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists)

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  • Overtly talking about “McCarthyism” or depicting a desire for transparency in govt. as somehow indicating a crypto-McCarthyite interest serves to deflect from the high and holy office attorneys too often imagine themselves holding. The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
  • The bulk of the criticism levied against the Tea Party has been directed at their most visible absurdities: the laughable primitivity of O'Donnell, Rand Paul, and Sharron Angle, the drawing of Hitler mustaches on the president (and occasionally on themselves), Glenn Beck's high-octane McCarthyism, the unhinged nativist fashion shows, etc. Daniel Cluchey: The Price of Tea
  • Originally coined to criticize the anti-communist pursuits of U. S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, "McCarthyism" soon took on a broader meaning, describing the excesses of similar efforts.
  • On national television the woman who herself raised the specter of McCarthyism with her unexplained remarks insinuated I was engaging in the same tactic.
  • The doctrinal orthodoxy of the day was McCarthyism in its final, decaying phase.
  • A moving tribute to FDR's struggle to rebuild his life and career after being stricken with polio, Sunrise at Campobello is also a metaphor for Schary's faith that the Democratic Party, too, would recover from the debilitating effects of McCarthyism. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
  • Our people were full of prejudices during McCarthyism, antisocialism, anticommunism. CASTRO INTERVIEW WITH BUCARANDA IN CARACAS
  • It was made by US president Harry S Truman in 1948, in response to politically motivated attacks against scientists associated with the dark era of McCarthyism.
  • The bulk of the criticism levied against the Tea Party has been directed at their most visible absurdities: the laughable primitivity of O'Donnell, Rand Paul, and Sharron Angle, the drawing of Hitler mustaches on the president and occasionally on themselves, Glenn Beck's high-octane McCarthyism, the unhinged nativist fashion shows, etc. Daniel Cluchey: The Price of Tea
  • The bulk of the criticism levied against the Tea Party has been directed at their most visible absurdities: the laughable primitivity of O'Donnell, Rand Paul, and Sharron Angle, the drawing of Hitler mustaches on the president (and occasionally on themselves), Glenn Beck's high-octane McCarthyism, the unhinged nativist fashion shows, etc. Daniel Cluchey: The Price of Tea
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