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Beyond the Trump era As the American political landscape languishes in a state of turmoil, it is sadly evident we have failed to learn from our own history. Journalist Sydney J. Harris noted, “History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.” McCarthyism, an extension of the 1920s Red Scare in our nation after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, was an intense vocal campaign which relied on sensationalism and the use of deceitful, unproven accusations against alleged communists in the U.S. government and other institutions carried out by Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s. By the end of 1954, the nation and McCarthy’s colleagues had had enough, prompting Joseph Welch to discredit him . “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”

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