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Senator Joseph McCarthy | President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and Texas Governor John Connally ride through the streets of Dallas, Texas prior to the assassination on November 22, 1963 | Supporters of US President Donald Trump, including Jake Angeli (C), a QAnon supporter known for his painted face and horned hat, enter the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Conspiracy theories — unmasked!

Paul Rosenberg
(Getty/Salon)

Keep calling McConnell #MoscowMitch

Matthew Rozsa
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY); Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (AP/Getty/Salon)

AOC schools Mitch McConnell on Red Scare

Matthew Rozsa
Rudy Giuliani; Nancy Pelosi; Joseph McCarthy; Donald Trump (AP/Getty)

Rudy compares Pelosi to Joe McCarthy

Matthew Rozsa
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Newt Gingrich; Brett Kavanaugh (AP/Shutterstock)

What Gingrich has wrong about "Crucible"

Joseph Neese
Donald Trump; Roy Cohn; Joseph McCarthy (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta/Getty/Keystone/Hulton Archive)

Why Trump loves to claim "witch hunt"

Paul Rosenberg
Newt Gingrich; Joseph McCarthy; Rex Tillerson (AP/Getty/Salon)

Tillerson and Trump wreak havoc at State

Heather Digby Parton
Joseph McCarthy; Rex Tillerson (AP/William J. Smith/Patsy Lynch)

Trump's foreign policy vacuum

Heather Digby Parton
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Roy Cohn, Donald Trump (AP/John Locher/Photo montage by Salon)

Shades of Roy Cohn

Heather Digby Parton
David Brooks (AP/Nam Y. Huh)

"A Joe McCarthy Moment"

Scott Eric Kaufman
(AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Demis Maryannakis)

The failed Benghazi witchhunt

Heather Digby Parton
Joseph McCarthy, Ted Cruz (AP/Bill Allen/Reuters/Joe Mitchell)

Ted Cruz & the new McCarthyism

Elias Isquith
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Darrell Issa (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Issa's latest desperate move

Elias Isquith
Joe McCarthy

Amanda Marcotte - Alternet

Amanda Marcotte - Alternet
Ted Cruz (AP/David J. Phillip)

The GOP's Ted Cruz problem

Steve Kornacki
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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX (AP/David J. Phillip)

Ted Cruz: I’m being silenced!

Joan Walsh
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-56417p1.html'>Lagui</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Peter Trachtenberg
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