Louisiana Senator John Kennedy resurrected the Red Scare on Thursday, reminding everyone that McCarthyism never really died—just fell into a bit of a coma.
Republican lawmakers spent the better part of a Senate Judiciary hearing grilling Biden judicial nominee Melissa Dubose, but few more than Kennedy, who outright demanded to know if she was “still a Marxist.”
“I am not, nor have ever been, a Marxist,” replied DuBose.
But Kennedy wasn’t satisfied with that, instead citing a 2000 interview she gave to the “feminist press” Women’s Studies Quarterly, in which she told the interviewer that shortly after graduating Providence College, she began working at Little Connie’s, a local coffee shop, where she said students from a private, progressive high school had her “in a Marxist phase.”
read more: https://newrepublic.com/post/178885/republican-senator-john-kennedy-are-you-still-marxist
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10 Comments
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 2y
Senator Kennedy, are you still a Nazi shit stain?
Vaggumon@lemm.ee · 33 pts · 2y
Should have replied with "Are you still a Russian asset?"
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz · 30 pts · 2y
Senator, when did you stop beating your wife?
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
When she died.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2y
Heard an interview yesterday where a prominent politician repeatedly called the Democratic Party the "Democrat Party" just like McCarthy.
It was Joe Manchin.
PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 2y
Rather a Marxist then a McCarthyist, senator.
ivanafterall@kbin.social · 15 pts · 2y
He should be played by Harland Williams in any unlikely film adaptations.
thefartographer@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
They'd have to wait for Harland Williams to die and then dig him up 13 months later to get the makeup right.
delirious_owl@discuss.online · 2 pts · 2y
Is this the guy running for president ?
Beelzebob@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
No, that's a different kidney bean.