Trump Is Building the Blue Scare | The Ezra Klein Show
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This is McCarthyism 2.0. Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Trump administration has been speed-running an attack on the “radical left.” And the tactics it has been using are darkly reminiscent of the Red Scare of the 1940s and ’50s. So what can that period teach us about the current moment and what the Trump administration might do next? How far could this go? Corey Robin is a political theorist at Brooklyn College. He’s an expert on McCarthyism and the author of the book “The Reactiona...
Who is mentioned in this episode?
18 people come up, including Charlie Cook, Joseph McCarthy, Mitchell Palmer.
- Charlie Cook (Person)
- Joseph McCarthy (Person)
- Mitchell Palmer (Person)
- Emma Goldman (Person)
- Klay Risen (Person)
- Alger Hiss (Person)
- Adolf Hitler (Person)
- Dean Acheson (Person)
- Henry Wallace (Person)
- Carl Bernstein (Person)
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Person)
- Ayn Rand (Person)
- Lauren Bacall (Person)
- Humphrey Bogart (Person)
- Ed Sullivan (Person)
- Helen Gahagan Douglas (Person)
- Frank J. Rosa (Person)
- Margaret Chase Smith (Person)
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- Reichstag fire (Concept)
- McCarthyism (Concept)
- Hollywood (Location)
- Department of Justice (Company)
- Antifa (Concept)
- Palmer Raids (Concept)
- Woodrow Wilson administration (Company)
- Russian Ark (Product)
- Red Scare (book by Klay Risen) (Book)
- Soviet Union (Location)
- New Deal (Concept)
- Yalta (Location)
- Pumpkin Papers (Product)
- House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) (Company)
- Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) (Company)
- Harvard Law School (Company)
- Grapes of Wrath (Book)
- Gentleman's Agreement (Book)
- How to Marry a Millionaire (Product)
- Democratic Party (Company)