“Silence, obedience, and submission—subjugation for political ends—that’s the point. The goal of McCarthyism was to crush what was left of the New Deal left-liberal alliance, primarily in the labor movement, and it succeeded. The point wasn’t to be cruel.”
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/muskism-and-mccarthyism/
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