The GOP's modern McCarthyism began early this year when a few fringe Republicans started accusing President Obama of being a socialist. Then the accusation went mainstream in the GOP because no one on the left challenged it. Now it's everywhere, to the point where I hear "normal" Republicans use the charge when I travel the country (someone at dinner recently seriously told me that they were concerned about the large number of Maoists in the Obama administration). This is an example of what happens when you don't stand up for yourself. Or much of anything.
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