The Red Scare McCarthyism

For more than half a century the Red Scare McCarthyism was not just a one historical episode among many for American liberals. To see all of that abandoned so quickly to see it abandoned is the wrong word to see precisely the thing that American liberalism had supposedly been against and defined itself in opposition seemed significant, says Julian Zelizer. He points out how some of these things had their roots not in Trump's election but back in the things the Obama administration was doing.