"Each time, federal employees were targeted first. President Harry S Truman’s Federal Loyalty Program screened 5 million workers for communist affiliation; 2,700 lost their jobs, 12,000 resigned." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous | Judith LevineTrump’s campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful toolswww.theguardian.com