03-12-2022, 06:24 PM
Red-baiting
"...to discredit the validity of a political opponent and the opponent's logical argument by accusing, denouncing, attacking, or persecuting the target individual or group as anarchist, communist, Marxist, socialist, Stalinist, or fellow travelers towards these ideologies."
A tried and "true" tactic...
"In the United States, the term red-baiting dates to as far back as 1927."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-baiting
"...to discredit the validity of a political opponent and the opponent's logical argument by accusing, denouncing, attacking, or persecuting the target individual or group as anarchist, communist, Marxist, socialist, Stalinist, or fellow travelers towards these ideologies."
A tried and "true" tactic...
"In the United States, the term red-baiting dates to as far back as 1927."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-baiting