131. R is for Red Scare

Katharine tells Lorien not about that one other podcast but about the red scare in the US in the 1920s, 40s, and 50s (we were a little busy in the 1930s). Sources: Sources:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-democrats-enemies-within-rcna175628https://www.newsweek.com/trump-reacts-zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-primary-win-2090781https://apnews.com/article/trump-communist-judges-tariff-china-russia-cae626a3699a5411841f646a847c2c7b https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/retread-scare-trump-and-other-republicans-evoke-another-era-by-calling-democrats-communists https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/12/trump-rally-vermin-political-opponents/ https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/mccarthyism-red-scare#:~:text=%5BThe%20American%20Heritage%20Dictionary%20gives,in%20order%20to%20suppress%20opposition.%5D https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/mccarthy-more-than-just-a-man/#:~:text=For%20several%20years%20before%20Joseph,Supreme%20Court%20Justice%2C%20William%20O. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcuYybbehAo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism