"Professor
Thanks for this post.
I admit I fail to see the analogies between Trump and McCarthy as faux conspiracy theorists.
I do not believe Trump's story is mainly about conspiracies. Obama is not his real target.
McCarthy's conspiracy theories were voiced after the real conspiratorial work of the Soviet Union, both before during, and after WWII, during Democratic administrations until Eisenhower in 1953, mind you, had been done here, and the real conspirators mostly had long since decamped. See for example "The Haunted Wood". This lays it out very well.
These communist, socialist, conspiracies were real conspiracies, they had real goals, and they realized real palpable results both before, during, and after WWII. They were not chimeras. McCarthy's targets, only begun after 1950, were chimeras.
Eisenhower would do anything that got him elected.
All the best"
See also the important authoritative works on the Venona Project, part of which I only read after this post.
See also the important authoritative works on the Venona Project, part of which I only read after this post.
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