People forget McCarthyism; I am fine if this administration has access to my cell phone records, but I would not be fine if the red scare happened again. It is hard to take away power from government once it is considered "settled law".
I am not old enough to state this with confidence, but I strongly suspect that a large minority, if not the majority, of people were in favour of McCarthyism in order to root out those awful communists. People are surprisingly unimaginative and just don't see how it could be turned on them.
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People forget McCarthyism; I am fine if this administration has access to my cell phone records, but I would not be fine if the red scare happened again. It is hard to take away power from government once it is considered "settled law".
I am not old enough to state this with confidence, but I strongly suspect that a large minority, if not the majority, of people were in favour of McCarthyism in order to root out those awful communists. People are surprisingly unimaginative and just don't see how it could be turned on them.