The Return Of The McCarthyite Chill

Source: The Weekly Dish
by Andrew Sullivan

“Every noncitizen in the US now has to watch what they say about foreign policy — or else. You may have just arrived from Putin’s Russia, and are now being told by Trump: don’t think you now have free speech just because you’re in America. The US government is monitoring your every word and can deport you if you say the wrong thing. You have to wait until you’re a citizen to be free. If the law seems McCarthyite, that’s because it was passed in 1952 and aimed specifically at Holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe suspected of communist sympathies.” (03/14/25)

https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-return-of-the-mccarthyite-chill-8ca