“There is an enemy, in both cases, in low places. That would be Communists in the early ‘50s. The equivalent is non-White voters today. Groups that the predominantly White majority of Americans are suspicious of,” said Mr. Gerstle, a historian at the University of Cambridge and author of “Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present.”
The enemies in low places are, according to the conspiracy theories, aided by the powerful. Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s paranoia spared noone, not even Presidents Truman and Eisenhower. Mr. Trump directed his allegations of an election conspiracy at such influential forces as “radical Democrats” and the “fake news media,” among others.
“There is an enemy, in both cases, in low places. That would be Communists in the early ‘50s. The equivalent is non-White voters today. Groups that the predominantly White majority of Americans are suspicious of,” said Mr. Gerstle, a historian at the University of Cambridge and author of “Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present.”
The enemies in low places are, according to the conspiracy theories, aided by the powerful. Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s paranoia spared noone, not even Presidents Truman and Eisenhower. Mr. Trump directed his allegations of an election conspiracy at such influential forces as “radical Democrats” and the “fake news media,” among others.