What exactly McCarthyism for our times looks like is still in flux. Loomer declined to elaborate when I asked. In my conversations with Bannon, he was enthusiastic about bringing McCarthy into the modern political moment, but vague about the details. Posobiec, though he declined to talk, has been a little more precise. In the 2024 book, Unhumans, he and his co-author, Joshua Lisec, wrote that renewing McCarthyism would mean employing the “humiliation tactic” of “naming and shaming” leftists, and a return to the blacklists of the Red Scare.
This is just more reactionary purity spiral nonsense from people who are paid way too much to invent hyper-inflammatory political sophistry. Ironically, protected speech like this would not be possible in the oppressive government they lazily describe.
This is just more reactionary purity spiral nonsense from people who are paid way too much to invent hyper-inflammatory political sophistry. Ironically, protected speech like this would not be possible in the oppressive government they lazily describe.
They should watch more TNG.