Donald Trump brings many defects to his new role as the GOP standard-bearer. Such defects have led Trump's opponents to make allegations that range from hysterical to sleazy. In the former category are the growing number of speeches and articles that imply (and in some cases outright assert) that Trump is a closet Nazi. In the latter category are the even more rapidly mounting allegations that he is a Russian sycophant, if not a Russian agent. That smear constitutes a new McCarthyism. And it is especially ironic that liberal Democrats, the principal victims of the original McCarthyism during the early Cold War, are the main perpetrators this time.
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