{"id":1001115,"date":"2023-02-22T06:57:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T06:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=274788"},"modified":"2023-02-22T06:57:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T06:57:22","slug":"mccarthyism-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/22\/mccarthyism-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthyism, Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can there be any question that we\u2019re in a mad \u2014 and loud \u2014 new age of McCarthyism?\u00a0Thank you, Kevin! And don\u2019t forget the wildly over-the-top members of the so-called\u00a0Freedom Caucus\u00a0and their Republican associates, including that\u00a0charmer, lyin\u2019 George Santos,\u00a0Jewish-space-laser-and-white-balloon-carrying\u00a0Marjorie Taylor Greene, and \u2014 once again running for president \u2014 the man who\u00a0never lost, Donald Trump-em-all. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/22\/mccarthyism-then-and-now\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/22\/mccarthyism-then-and-now\/\">McCarthyism, Then and Now<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/22\/mccarthyism-then-and-now\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can there be any question that we\u2019re in a mad \u2014 and loud \u2014 new age of McCarthyism?\u00a0Thank you, Kevin! And don\u2019t forget the wildly over-the-top members of the so-called\u00a0Freedom Caucus\u00a0and their Republican associates, including that\u00a0charmer, lyin\u2019 George &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001116,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001115\/revisions\/1001116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}