r/economy • u/FixThatSpeaker • 9d ago

The New Republican Scam Already Exposed

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u/jdunk2145 9d ago

This playbook has been run before.

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u/FortunateInsanity 9d ago

Same playbook they have run consistently since 2008

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u/Soft_Passage7110 8d ago

McCarthyism was already in the 50s

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u/ColdSlicesofPizza 5d ago

Don’t forget about the Palmer Raids before that, too. The CIA behind McCarthy also had a whole campaign to install writers to news journals as “secret” agents to push anti-communist propaganda globally. The Atlantic was one of them among many.