Kai Bird

American journalist

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Joe McCarthy is a much less complicated and driven kind of figure than Roy Cohn,
I told my publicist to reach out to any of the Fox News hosts and reporters, to Joe Rogan, Steve Bannon,
He could be very charming with someone like Gary Belis and sort of decent,
At 27, Cohn was on the cover of Time magazine,
  • Bird said, pointing to a rise that saw Cohn graduate from Columbia Law School at 20, prosecute Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed for spying for Russia, then become GOP Senator Joe McCarthy’s aide in the Red Scare, the brutal 1950s witch-hunt of liberals and homosexuals in the federal government
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Roy’s story really suggests that Trump is not an aberration,
Not unlike the bedrock supporters of Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ (MAGA) movement decades later, McCarthy’s constituency included Midwestern, agrarian populists, who often harbored suspicions against urban sophisticates, college professors, pin-striped diplomats, Jews, immigrants, and Blacks—anyone who might be labeled ‘the other.’ Their instincts were isolationist and nativist,

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