‘We Need to Do McCarthyism to the Tenth Power’
www.theatlantic.com
Conservative influencers are pushing for a return to the dark days of 1950s inquisitions.
  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Membership of the CPUSA peaked in the late 1940s, with over 75,000 members in 1947.[5] But their influence spanned beyond just their membership as some candidates in national elections garnered over 100,000 votes.

    Apparently there were about 143.7 million people in the United States at the time.

    Anyway, in all of my life, I’ve only met one person (IRL) that admitted they were a capital-C Communist.