💬 Opinion Aug 13, 2026 · Harold Meyerson

Hong Campaign Postmortem: It Wasn’t the Socialism, It Was the Woke

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Hong Campaign Postmortem: It Wasn’t the Socialism, It Was the Woke
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During the high point of McCarthyism in the early 1950s, what the American right focused on wasn’t so much the current views or affiliations of the leftists it sought to vilify. It was what they may have believed or said 10 or 15 years earlier, when thousands of Americans flocked to the liberal-left Popular Front groups backed by the Communist Party, then seeking to present itself as merely the most zealous part of the pro-Roosevelt community. By the time Joe McCarthy began charging the Pentagon

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