Op-Ed: A new McCarthyism finds a champion in Donald Trump (via latimesopinion)
Both men are adept at inventing figures to fear — in McCarthy’s case, it was scheming Communists, in Trump’s, it’s immigrants. Both turned their names into universal brands. Neither had a master strategy to govern; the point was only to acquire and cling to power.
The connection between the senator and the president, of course, is more than rhetorical. Roy Cohn, the New York attorney, was the flesh-and-blood through-line. In the 1950s, Cohn served as McCarthy’s eager protégé. Twenty years later, he became Trump’s bare-knuckled mentor, channeling the senator’s ruthlessness to the eventual president.
Never has that been more apparent than in Trump’s reported distain for those in uniform. While the president has
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