Red Scare

1. The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. This “scare” was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution.

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Many are framing this moment of political vertigo as a new Red Scare, a 21st-century McCarthyism.

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Why is McCarthyism and the Red Scare in the 1950s the go-to reference point — and warning — for so many political observers?

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She describes it as “about McCarthyism and the Red Scare. It’s a little bit of a murder mystery too.”

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As America’s democracy rapidly collapses, there are public voices in the news media and political class who are warning about the evils of a new Red Scare.

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What dominant culture, from Pax Romana to Salem, Massachusetts, to 1960s Red Scare Florida, has not displayed a sine wave in its relationship to the non-heteronormative: Hidden, then semi-tolerated, then celebrated, then persecuted, then hidden, then rinse and repeat, ad infinitum?

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