Trump’s campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful tools There are many parallels between the first McCarthy era, roughly 1946 to 1956, and Trump’s campaign of political repression, his own updated McCarthyism. Both regimes crafted...
Source: [Guardian US](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/31/mccarthyism-trump-surveillance-red-scare)