Red Scare of the 50s to MAGA Scare: We Have Been Here a LONG Fucking Time Back Ago

Introduction

Well shit, here we are again. Sometimes history doesn't just rhyme – it screams in your face with a bullhorn. The parallels between the 1950s Red Scare and what's happening in 2025 under Trump's renewed grip on power are so damn obvious it would be laughable if it wasn't so terrifying.

Part 1: The Original Sin - McCarthyism and the Red Scare

When Joseph McCarthy waved his infamous "list of known communists" in 1950, he kicked off one of the most disgraceful witch hunts in American history. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, that pompous ass, demanded "positive loyalty" from State Department employees in 1953 (Richardson, "The Politics of Fear: McCarthy Years", Harvard Political Review, 2023). What followed was a shit show of epic proportions.

Under Eisenhower's Executive Order 10450, the government fired 1,456 federal employees. But here…