Thursday, August 13, 2026

McCarthyism Redux: GOP parties like it's 1950

 
Headline:  Talking Points Memo, 8/11/2025

Nicole LaFond reports:
In addition to the recent bout of anti-Islam rhetoric and xenophobia being resurrected by the Republican Party this cycle, I’ve also been tracking how Republicans are labeling anything Democrats support as “communism” amid the recent wave of progressive populist victories. 
It began as general fearmongering from President Trump about how the nation is being taken over by godless communists and socialists in response to some Zohran Mamdani-backed candidates beating out incumbents or incumbent-backed Democrats in a few extremely blue New York City congressional districts. But Republican members of Congress have since taken cues from the top and run with it all in increasingly freakish ways. Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) escalated things last week when he claimed that Medicare for All is a “communist” policy. [emphasis added]
Rep. John McGuire (R-VA) did something similar in a News Nation interview today when he suggested that humane immigration policies that Dems tend to support are actually “crazy communism.”
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