joe mccarthy

Republicans are dogged by a creepy nostalgia for Communism. Joe Stalin and Chairman Mao, we just can’t quit you. Ronald Reagan built the modern Republican coalition around a single unifying logic, our shared loathing of the Soviets. What else so reliably brings together Northern commercial capitalists, rural Southerners, suburban whites, religious fundamentalists, and Florida Hispanics?
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Coulter is a commentator, but she has transformed that role into something previously unknown. At a time when other commentators couched their statements and felt embarrassment or shame if they were caught in an error, Coulter broke the rules. She would take a shred of a fact and shape it into something a hair short of slander. The rules that once stifled the world of punditry prevented anyone from calling her out on her tactics. They were playing checkers while she was playing football.
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