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Trust Buster

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8. The efforts by the Right to push communist infriltration had gone on for decades prior to

Reply to superpatriotman (Reply #6)

Thu Feb 9, 2017, 09:02 AM

Feb 2017

McCarthy. It didn't happen in a vacuum. Television was in it's nascent stages. The first televised presidential debate had not taken place yet. Today's social media is a double edged sword and not a single edged sword. I think you gloss over the historical differences.

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How long before the America First trials begin? [View all] superpatriotman Feb 2017 OP

Digitalization has changed everything. McCarthy would have been exposed for the fraud he was Trust Buster Feb 2017 #1

Or would he have used it to his favor like Twitler? superpatriotman Feb 2017 #3

And he has also been outed for his many lies. Thus, his fake news response. No one stood up Trust Buster Feb 2017 #4

Roy Cohn superpatriotman Feb 2017 #6

The efforts by the Right to push communist infriltration had gone on for decades prior to Trust Buster Feb 2017 #8

There is no historical precedence for this chief executive superpatriotman Feb 2017 #12

I hope Tinkle Bell would try something this foolish. Then we would have a ripe impeachable offense. Trust Buster Feb 2017 #13

And who will lead this impeachment? superpatriotman Feb 2017 #15

I think you are being a tad hyperbolic. But, we'll see. Trust Buster Feb 2017 #16

With a couple strokes of the pen superpatriotman Feb 2017 #9

My response is post #8 Trust Buster Feb 2017 #11

Excellent point..nothing will go unnoticed. 100's of protestors gathered to halt a single jmg257 Feb 2017 #5

Is it really so much of a stretch to have those protestors declared 'enemies' superpatriotman Feb 2017 #7

Yep - quite a stretch. Not saying some people in authority wouldn't try to enforce 'stupid' jmg257 Feb 2017 #10

This has generally been considered an inadvisable response but cadmium Feb 2017 #2

Show Trials and Purges are old hat BSdetect Feb 2017 #14

And has surrounded himself with people who hate government superpatriotman Feb 2017 #17