Donald Trump & “A Conspiracy So Immense”

It is deeply regrettable that American political culture chose to name a midcentury brand of rightwing, authoritarian, and conspiracist thinking in the United States after the person who wielded it most prominently on a national stage: that is, to call “McCarthyism” after the man, sparing the movement.

In reality, “McCarthyism” abated but never disappeared.