Risen, a historian and journalist, believes that the roots of today’s political hard right are to be found in the Red Scare that lasted from the mid-1940s to 1957, when lawmakers tried to root out communist sympathizers from American public life. The MAGA movement that backs President Donald Trump is not identical to those that supported Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s or animated the influential right-wing John Birch Society in the 1960s, but, according to Risen, they share enough common

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