In 1798-1800, Federalists claimed Jacobin sympathizers were trying to overthrow the US gov't, requiring the Alien & Sedition Acts to defeat the conspiracy - but really to suppress their political opposition (Democratic-Republicans). Was this the first form of redbaiting?
In 1872, many Republicans bolted because Reconstruction was "too radical" for them, playing directly into Redeemers trying to nullify civil rights. Just look at their accusations and tell me that's any different from MAGA redbaiting
a real shame that mccarthyism got watered down because that's the kind of bad-faith redbaiting that word was made to describe
lol The Regime doesn’t waste any time getting into redbaiting does it
onight on Noir Alley on TCM #NoirAlley#TCM THE WOMAN ON PIER 13 (1949) Howard Hughes' redbaiting is on full display in this movie, aka I MARRIED A COMMUNIST. Robert Ryan and Laraine Day do their best. 🎥
Since Russia 🇷🇺 is all orthodox ☦️now it's a boon to US conservatives who now get to bundle overt racism with their redbaiting as they rail against 🇨🇳...though they were kinda racist against Russians & Slavs generally in the bad old days but got a pass because of E.European emigres' anticommunism.
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Redbaiting is bad. It is always bad. Good people don't redbait. People trying to bring back redbaiting today should be shunned.
scared how they’re gonna handle the redbaiting on the spinoff