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How Bad is it Really? - I have in my hand, a list...

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Part 2 - The Red Scare 2: Comeback Tour

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Mar 20, 2024
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I don’t know about the rest of you, but when I was a kid, McCarthy was basically the boogieman.

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He was scarier than Henry Kissinger, even scarier than Ronald Reagan.

To answer your question, yes, I was a very weird kid.

Joseph McCarthy was a politician through and through. He knew how to spin the facts to his advantage…

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