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| Edgar Bergen with his ventriloquist's dummy Charlie McCarthy |
Peter Beinart has been known to throw around the term McCarthyism.
When he wrote about it in 2010, Beinart was using the term in decrying the scapegoating of Muslims in the US. He compares it to the Palmer raids under Democratic President Woodrow Wilson where thousands of communists, anarchists, immigrants, and labor radicals were rounded up and deported -- as well as with the red scare exploited by Republican Joe McCarthy.
Beinart writes that such isolationism avoids a basic fact:
