I wonder what it is with Republicans and Mccarthyism.

Back when McCarthy was ruling he made up a claim that thousands of communists wanted to sacrifice people's babies to Satan and stuff like that and gullible people believed him which was nuts. I mean honestly I always wonder what makes people so low IQ to believe conspiracies but I guess people really did believe that there's people who want to harm their pathetic lives even though most don't live in a worthwhile fashion enough for people to care anyways.

That's neither here nor there, Republicans been a little screwy since that time. Like it knocked a few bolts and nuts a bit loose in their head or something.

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swirlie · 31-35

People will inherently gravitate to others who shed light on what they want to hear, no matter what the subject matter is. That is why a person who thinks they're sick will go to several doctors for a so-called "second opinion" if the first doctor says there's nothing wrong with them, until they finally find a doctor who will agree with them that they are in fact sick.

It doesn't mean they ARE sick, it only means the alleged sick person found someone who will agree with him that he IS sick.

The MAGA-right think the same way as the alleged sick person described above. Trump simply harnessed what every MAGA's deep-rooted emotional beef was, which Trump then followed-up with words that led MAGA to believe that Trump agrees with them ..and so now he fights for the MAGA-mindset in America, though Trump himself doesn't actually believe in MAGA nor their cause because Trump was a registered Democrat before he entered politics!

McCarthyism was no different at the time. McCarty harnessed the primary beef that concerned the majority of Americans at the time, at which point he chose to become their official voice in Washington and Americans supported McCarty no differently than extreme right-wing conservatives support Donald Trump.

Keep in mind however, that Republicans are not MAGA. Republicans in America are center-right conservatives, whereas MAGA-conservatives in America are extreme right-wing fascists. Republicans by their center-right nature are not fascists. For someone to suggest that Republicans are fascists is nothing more than a contradiction of terms.