Jonah Goldberg: Trump team’s bizarre legal fight channels the McCarthy era
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
Nov 25, 2020
3 minutes
Sen. Joseph McCarthy liked to insist he had evidence of communists in the government, but he couldn’t show you the names right now. The number of communist infiltrators on his secret list changed from speech to speech.
Listening to Donald Trump’s legal team claim over and over again that they have voluminous evidence that the election was stolen, it occurred to me that we’re in a kind of repeat McCarthy era. Only this time, to borrow from
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