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131. R is for Red Scare

131. R is for Red Scare

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Katharine tells Lorien not about that one other podcast but about the red scare in the US in the 1920s, 40s, and 50s (we were a little busy in the 1930s).


Sources:

Sources:

  • https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-democrats-enemies-within-rcna175628
  • https://www.newsweek.com/trump-reacts-zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-primary-win-2090781
  • https://apnews.com/article/trump-communist-judges-tariff-china-russia-cae626a3699a5411841f646a847c2c7b
  • https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/retread-scare-trump-and-other-republicans-evoke-another-era-by-calling-democrats-communists
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/12/trump-rally-vermin-political-opponents/
  • https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/mccarthyism-red-scare#:~:text=%5BThe%20American%20Heritage%20Dictionary%20gives,in%20order%20to%20suppress%20opposition.%5D
  • https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/mccarthy-more-than-just-a-man/#:~:text=For%20several%20years%20before%20Joseph,Supreme%20Court%20Justice%2C%20William%20O.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcuYybbehAo
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
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