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COMMENT | Hadi stoops to new low, attacks DAP with 'McCarthyism'
COMMENT | PAS chief Abdul Hadi Awang is stooping to ‘McCarthyism’ in his attacks on the DAP.

According to the Marang MP, DAP is intrinsically evil. Anything it does is wrong and whatever it doesn’t do is also suspect. Simply by existing, DAP is a problem, in the PAS supremo’s worldview.

‘McCarthyism’ is the term that entered political discourse in the early 1950s when Senator Joseph McCarthy triggered a ‘Red scare’ in the United States by branding anyone he disliked a communist.

For a few years, in the mid-1950s, his lurid claims of communists lurking in the higher echelons of the US government and society fomented an atmosphere where reputable and patriotic Americans had their names and careers besmirched by the frenzy that the Wisconsin senator set off.

The senator leveraged on the noxious fumes stemming from the blame game the US political establishment was caught up in because of China’s fall to the communists in 1949 to create an atmosphere in which ‘Reds’ were suspected as a lurking presence and threat to the nation...

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