[continued]There are important differences between our epoch and that of the McCarthy period, but these can cut both ways. For one, the anticommunism of the 50s was actually made possible by white supremacy, the New Deal and the post-war boom. For another, despite the existence of the Soviet Union and a formally "bipolar" world, the U.S. was unquestionably the dominant military and economic power. We are in a period that starkly contrasts with the "American Century."

For one thing, we are in a state of economic decline and growing social polarization. For another, the Democratic Leadership Council put the nail in the coffin of Roosevelt's "liberal-labor alliance" in the late 80s, after a decade of bipartisan-supported "one-sided class warfare." The labor movement, has been further shredded by four more decades of the same and its own unwillingness and inability to undertake a frontal assault on racism and xenophobia.

MAGA demagogically claims that pandering to oppressive ideologies will restore economic ascendancy and wellbeing for the (white, male) masses. This is where any attempt to impose a witch-hunt cuts both ways. The economic leg is missing, a hegemonic bloc with labor as a junior partner is missing, leaving white supremacy. The ball is in our court.

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