The Red Scare

I saw an interview earlier today, in which a TV news journalist (I forget which one) predicted that the threat of communism is going to be the central theme of the Republican leading up to the midterm elections. Here’s Trump setting this up.

This makes sense, given that the target audience is largely unaware that:

In the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy led this nation through a nightmarish effort to imprison anyone with any ties to communism.  This is now regarded as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in U.S. history.

and

There are dozens of social democracies around the globe that offer their citizens extremely high qualities of life. The countries at the top of the World Happiness Rankings are, in order,

• Finland (Score: 7.764)
• Iceland (Score: 7.540)
• Denmark (Score: 7.539)
• Costa Rica (Score: 7.439)
• Sweden (Score: 7.255)
• Norway (Score: 7.242)
• The Netherlands (Score: 7.223)

Now, the typical MAGA guy can’t find Finland on a map of the world, but it’s that very level of ignorance that makes all this horsecrap work.