The Ezra Klein Show Trump Is Building the Blue Scare
Podcast Episode | 87 min | Talk-Show

The Ezra Klein Show

Trump Is Building the Blue Scare

Podcast Episode | 87 min | Talk-Show

His is McCarthyism 2.0. Since Charlie Kirk's assassination, the Trump administration has been speed-running an attack on the "radical left." And the tactics it has been using are darkly reminiscent of the Red Scare of the 1940s and '50s. ...See moreHis is McCarthyism 2.0. Since Charlie Kirk's assassination, the Trump administration has been speed-running an attack on the "radical left." And the tactics it has been using are darkly reminiscent of the Red Scare of the 1940s and '50s. So what can that period teach us about the current moment and what the Trump administration might do next? How far could this go? Corey Robin is a political theorist at Brooklyn College. He's an expert on McCarthyism and the author of the book "The Reactionary Mind," one of the most insightful books you can read on the Trumpist right. In this conversation, he walks through what happened in the first and second Red Scares and what made him start worrying about the Trump administration. See less

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10 cast members

Name	Known for
Pam Bondi Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Florida Wild
Alger Hiss Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Trials of Alger Hiss (1980)
J. Edgar Hoover Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Next of Kin (1942)
Ezra Klein Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	Explained (2018)
Karoline Leavitt Self - Propagandist (archive footage) Self - Propagandist (archive footage) See fewer	Almanac (1984)
Stephen Miller Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	PBS News Hour (1975)
Corey Robin Self Self See fewer	Factually! with Adam Conover (2019)
John Parnell Thomas Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Donald Trump Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Apprentice (2004)
JD Vance Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Hillbilly Elegy (2020)