Abcarian: If Republicans retake the House, steel yourself for the New McCarthyism (via latimesopinion)
last fall. “That includes debate by parents criticizing school boards. That is welcome. ... The only thing we’re concerned about … is violence and threats of violence against school officials, school teachers, school staff, just like we’re concerned about those kinds of threats against senators, members of Congress, election officials.”
Never one to let the truth stand in the way of a good wedge issue, McCarthy went full Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister who said that if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth. “Why did he go after parents, and call them terrorists, simply because they wanted to go to a school board meeting?”McCarthy’s accusations, as befits a man whoIt would be an act of criminal stupidity for Republicans to choose McCarthy as their leader. He has already proven he can’t keep his mouth shut when he should and cannot properly strategize when he needs to.
In 2015, he fumbled away his chance at becoming speaker when he accidentally let slip — on Fox News, of course — that t to dirty up former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in advance of her quest for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.
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