The politics of fear and political hysteria

The history in this county to me, is that the counter subversives, starting with the alien and sedition acts — way back in — after the revolutionary war, they always do more damage than the subversives they’re out to counter; and that’s the lesson that we ought to take from it.

Victor Navasky, author of “Naming Names” in a Bob Edwards Interview about the McCarthy Hearings

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