Well, I so hope that your prediction is correct. He is trapped in a net of his own making. He is bombing in Iran again and finding nonexistent communists at home. Keep this up and the powers that be need only release some unredacted Epstein files.
I wish I felt as hopeful for justice as this piece suggests is possible. The Roy Cohn transmission line is the most important thing in this piece. McCarthy to Cohn to Trump is not an analogy — it is a direct pedagogical relationship. Cohn taught Trump the specific mechanics: the escalating accusation, the refusal to retract, the 2am post. Trump inherited the method without inheriting the structural conditions that made it briefly work, or the brains and discipline to work it. The Soviet Union was real. The communist threat, real and stoked, had genuine public anxiety to attach to, an anchor in peoples lives that felt and was real. In 2026 the word attaches to nothing, which is why it lands as mockery rather than fear.
The one thing worth adding: McCarthy's collapse required a catalyst, an ignition point that burned the whole thing down. Accumulation without catalysis can persist longer than expected. Whether the institutions that isolated McCarthy retain the capacity to act is the question this piece leaves open.
The trap may close. The mechanism to close it is less certain than it was in 1954 and I do not feel as though justice will just suddenly bend in the right direction.
While Donnie J. ranted these words I have a feeling that Lil’Stevie Niller fed them to him. Stevie is a Nixon devotee who feeds off the same scapegoating, racial prejudices and general nastiness that Tricky Dicky did. Roy Cohen was quite a mentor.
Old Monty Python script, paraphrased: "I can't even take a *bath* without six or seven Communists jumping in with me - they're in my shirt cupboard, and Brezhnev and Kosygin are in the kitchen now, eating my wife's jam!!!"
Ah, Robert, "From your lips to God's ears"... and I'm an atheist. So Republican people are just now understanding their hero, their god is about done? When the mid-term election is over old fat-brained trumpy's lame duck power play will be over. His place in the nation's presidential history is already set in stone; the bottom of the list. Even lower than nixon.
One thing not mentioned is the term communist. The USSR died decades ago and the majority of American don't really remember those days. They have no knowledge of what such terms as communism or facism really mean. But if the faudster in the Oval Office uses those terms it must be bad for whomever he's pointing his weak finger at in his midnight rampage. Hell, it is doubtful even the lame fool president knows what the words mean.
Unfortunately for trump, most folks younger than about 55 have no idea what a communist is or why they should be afraid. Those speeches and posts land as just so much background noise.
I can’t believe there are people who still believe that communism exists. Where? The Soviet Union collapsed and communism went with it. I was in China in the nineties and it was in the midst of a free market economy. Very clever creative people selling their wares. Buildings being built with bamboo scaffolding. The energy was palpable.
These fear mongers using the C word are at least as out dated as communism.
The real threat is Authoritarian Regimes. They will bend to the ultra wealthy and prevent the little people
from having the freedoms and opportunities that the current wealthy elites had to achieve their immense power and wealth.
No, really. Warning of Communists in 2026 is like warning of the danger mammoth attacks, and I'm just going to assume that you slipped through some sort of time portal.
Well, I so hope that your prediction is correct. He is trapped in a net of his own making. He is bombing in Iran again and finding nonexistent communists at home. Keep this up and the powers that be need only release some unredacted Epstein files.
I was very young, but I remember the McCarthy hearing. I would so love to see a version of it, with the trap closing on a certain fat neck, right now.
Rent the terrific documentary POINT OF ORDER.
The parallel ends when someone asks:
“At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
Because Trump’s answer is “no.”
Can you believe they’re actually rehashing the 1950s Commie narrative thinking that’ll help them get elected 🤣🤣🤣
The country has been racing backwards in time, so, while it's a stupid strategy, it's not at all surprising.
No not surprising, they’ve never had an original thought, and it’s never about progress, they just want slaves again
Can he take Vance with him?
I wish I felt as hopeful for justice as this piece suggests is possible. The Roy Cohn transmission line is the most important thing in this piece. McCarthy to Cohn to Trump is not an analogy — it is a direct pedagogical relationship. Cohn taught Trump the specific mechanics: the escalating accusation, the refusal to retract, the 2am post. Trump inherited the method without inheriting the structural conditions that made it briefly work, or the brains and discipline to work it. The Soviet Union was real. The communist threat, real and stoked, had genuine public anxiety to attach to, an anchor in peoples lives that felt and was real. In 2026 the word attaches to nothing, which is why it lands as mockery rather than fear.
The one thing worth adding: McCarthy's collapse required a catalyst, an ignition point that burned the whole thing down. Accumulation without catalysis can persist longer than expected. Whether the institutions that isolated McCarthy retain the capacity to act is the question this piece leaves open.
The trap may close. The mechanism to close it is less certain than it was in 1954 and I do not feel as though justice will just suddenly bend in the right direction.
I wish he’d just fall in a deep hole.
Yup.
While Donnie J. ranted these words I have a feeling that Lil’Stevie Niller fed them to him. Stevie is a Nixon devotee who feeds off the same scapegoating, racial prejudices and general nastiness that Tricky Dicky did. Roy Cohen was quite a mentor.
Old Monty Python script, paraphrased: "I can't even take a *bath* without six or seven Communists jumping in with me - they're in my shirt cupboard, and Brezhnev and Kosygin are in the kitchen now, eating my wife's jam!!!"
😏
Ah, Robert, "From your lips to God's ears"... and I'm an atheist. So Republican people are just now understanding their hero, their god is about done? When the mid-term election is over old fat-brained trumpy's lame duck power play will be over. His place in the nation's presidential history is already set in stone; the bottom of the list. Even lower than nixon.
One thing not mentioned is the term communist. The USSR died decades ago and the majority of American don't really remember those days. They have no knowledge of what such terms as communism or facism really mean. But if the faudster in the Oval Office uses those terms it must be bad for whomever he's pointing his weak finger at in his midnight rampage. Hell, it is doubtful even the lame fool president knows what the words mean.
Unfortunately for trump, most folks younger than about 55 have no idea what a communist is or why they should be afraid. Those speeches and posts land as just so much background noise.
I can’t believe there are people who still believe that communism exists. Where? The Soviet Union collapsed and communism went with it. I was in China in the nineties and it was in the midst of a free market economy. Very clever creative people selling their wares. Buildings being built with bamboo scaffolding. The energy was palpable.
These fear mongers using the C word are at least as out dated as communism.
The real threat is Authoritarian Regimes. They will bend to the ultra wealthy and prevent the little people
from having the freedoms and opportunities that the current wealthy elites had to achieve their immense power and wealth.
🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
Ooh! Communism! Spooky! 🤣
No, really. Warning of Communists in 2026 is like warning of the danger mammoth attacks, and I'm just going to assume that you slipped through some sort of time portal.
If Drumpf is alive in 2028, he will try to run again. It won't be legal, but that's never stopped him.