Liberal demonizing of the left has typically led to the worst state repression in USA history (Wilson's jailing of Debs, Truman's loyalty oaths empowering McCarthyism, JFK/LBJ spying on MLK empowering J. Edgar Hoover's war against Civil Rights). https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1278341916539662337 …
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Hoover was appointed by a Republucan to a lifetime position. FDR had to keep him to secure the votes for the New Deal. Kennedy wanted to fire him too. Hell *NIXON* was blackmailed into keeping him. No one but McCarthy types actually liked him. Read a fucking history book.
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