Bill Moyers, Michael Winship, BillMoyers.com. April 26, 2012.
Tea Party favorite Allen West was asked at a local gathering how many of his fellow members of Congress are “card-carrying Marxists or International Socialists.”
The Tea Party rebellion brings together six major political and economic trends of the last 20 years that are distinct from the anticommunism powering the McCarthy age.
McCarthy targeted people's identities and affiliations, not their actions, which destroyed innocent people's careers, spread a culture of fear and failed to make the US safer.