What exactly McCarthyism for our times looks like is still in flux. Loomer declined to elaborate when I asked. In my conversations with Bannon, he was enthusiastic about bringing McCarthy into the modern political moment, but vague about the details. Posobiec, though he declined to talk, has been a little more precise. In the 2024 book, Unhumans, he and his co-author, Joshua Lisec, wrote that renewing McCarthyism would mean employing the “humiliation tactic” of “naming and shaming” leftists, and a return to the blacklists of the Red Scare.

This is just more reactionary purity spiral nonsense from people who are paid way too much to invent hyper-inflammatory political sophistry. Ironically, protected speech like this would not be possible in the oppressive government they lazily describe.

They should watch more TNG.