1. The problem with this formulation is that it sees illiberalism & extremism as rooted only in far left & far right. But historically the most dangerous illiberalism is from centrists.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/971802635912269829 …
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3. Woodrow Wilson (mainstream progressive liberal) jailed people for their beliefs. The roots of McCarthyism were in Truman's loyalty oaths program & coddling of J. Edgar Hoover.
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4. The FBI's war against Martin Luther King was aided & often led by centrist Democrats (the Kennedy administration, George Kennan, William Sullivan).
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Centrists can parlay their "very serious people" credentials to justify illiberalism, you think?
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If only that was an actual thing...
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"Centrist." You must get your cues from dirt bag left Twitter.
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I spent years studying HUAC/McCarthyism. This is worse than a "bad take" - it's historically inaccurate revisionism. Just staggeringly wrong, on par with the people who claim Nazis were socialists.
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McCarthyism was great tbh. America needs another red scare.
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