The Red Scare Returns

Today, from the floor of town-hall meetings and the heights of the Republican Party, alarmed Americans fret about secret socialists and denounce the president as a dictator. They make plans to pull their children out of school rather than have them exposed to his hypnotic oratorical powers. They quail at imaginary death panels, storm at imaginary threats to gun rights, and froth at an imaginary birth-certificate scandal. And it has required only eight ... Full Story »

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Jim Lang
4.6
by Jim Lang - Sep. 11, 2009

This is a well written and insightful piece that notes the right's invocation of the "red scare" just weeks into Obama's term without any provocation or supporting evidence. After noting the phenomenon with incredulity, the writer seeks an explanation.

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