Most Europeans are unlikely to be familiar with the facts behind the
American term “McCarthyism.” They probably know it describes something
very bad in American politics – the “Communist witch hunts” of more than
half a century ago. They may also know that simply uttering the term,
like casting a spell, stops all debate cold by associating someone with
the eponymous Joseph McCarthy. As the story goes, he was himself very
bad. After all, he conducted those long ago “Communist witch hunts,“
ruining his name in perpetuity. This probably exhausts general
knowledge.
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