Louisiana Voice

With no need to comment or embellishment, I offer the latest observations of historian Heather Cox Richardson.

Heather Cox Richardson employs facts and history to make observations about contemporary American politics. She has written about the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the American West in award-winning books whose subjects stretch from the European settlement of the North American continent to the history of the Republican Party through the Trump administration. She is the author, most recently, of the best-selling Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America.

In the link below, the infamous Wheeling, W. Va. speech of June 1, 1950, exactly 76 years ago, that gave the world McCarthyism was delivered, setting the U.S. on a course of fever-pitched pandemonium that left innocent lives and careers in ruin.

Click on the link and listen and draw your own comparisons between the hysteria of McCarthyism and today’s political climate.