The "Blue" Scare?

A really interesting episode by Ezra Klein on our present political situation and its similarities to our country's earlier McCarthyism/Red Scare.

I was a kid in the 50s and was exposed to the political Right's worries about communism through my grandmother's sister, Auntie Bert. Auntie Bert was the only one of the family then who had graduated from college (UC Berkeley) and she had a cool apartment by the San Francisco marina. She belonged to the John Birch Society and the Masonic Order of the Eastern Star.

When the family met at my grandparents' house, Auntie Bert would bring us kuds anti-communist comic books and a board game which had the Communisits trying to "paint the world red", as well as religious tracts warning us about basically everything. Fortunately, though we loved Auntie Bert, we thought she was a nut, so none of that stuff stuck.

Or maybe some of it did ... is that why I don't like Mamdani? ;)