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Political witch hunts and blacklists: Donald Trump and the new era of McCarthyism

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Title
Political witch hunts and blacklists: Donald Trump and the new era of McCarthyism
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The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.vxe74pap9
Authors

Brincat, Shannon, Mols, Frank, Crimmins, Gail

Abstract

The parallels between McCarthyism and Trumpism are stark and unsettling; in both eras, dissent has been conflated with disloyalty.

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 245. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 September 2026.
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#192,256
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#20,060
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Altmetric has tracked 34,336,386 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 212,334 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 99.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% of its peers.