Salon Article RatingJoe McCarthy was never defeated -- and Donald Trump now leads the movement he created
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-98% Extremely Liberal
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "The speech was a smash hit and over the course of four years, the Wisconsin senator accused countless people of either actually being Communists, being Communist sympathizers (whatever that meant) or being soft on Communism, a hopelessly vague term that could be applied to almost anyone who didn't support open military confrontation with the Soviet Union." | Positive | 30% Conservative |
| "McCarthy was rewarded with a powerful chairmanship, at the Senate Committee on Government Operations, where Cohn and the young Robert F. Keedy serving as assistant counsels." | Positive | 26% Conservative |
| "This brings us to the Trump era." | Positive | 22% Conservative |
| "In chaeling McCarthyism, whether consciously or otherwise, Trump has been successful to a degree McCarthy himself could only have dreamed about." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Roger Stone is correct, in an upside-down fashion: There is a new McCarthyism in America today, and his pal Donald Trump and his supporters are the ones practicing it." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "For a better idea of what McCarthyism actually entails, consider this passage from a 2017 article about Cohn's influence on Trump." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "The bogus and evidence-free claim that Trump really won the 2020 election is quintessentially McCarthyist: Trump refused to settle or admit defeat, trying to proclaiming victory before all the votes had been counted and filing dozens of nonsensical lawsuits." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "For author Sam Roberts, the essence of Cohn's influence on Trump was the triad: Roy was a master of situational immorality . ..." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "The McCarthyist current has been with us ever since, and as Trump's career demonstrates, has not yet been defeated." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "This was more than a little ironic for abundant reasons, especially given that as a younger man, DonaldTrump had been mentored by the infamous Roy Cohn, Joe McCarthy's right-hand man, Roy Cohn." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "As with McCarthy's claims that he had lists of Communist agents in the government, Trump's empty allegations force his supporters either to take him at his word or reveal their disloyalty -- and nobody who wants a career in Republican politics can afford to be disloyal to Trump at the moment." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "To doubt Joe McCarthy in the early '50s was to become an accomplice to the Communist conspiracy, just as anyone who rejects Trump's Big Lie today is clearly a socialist antifa liberal." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "It practically lays out, step by step, the ways that Trump's narcissism would later fuel his attempts to overturn the 2020 election:" | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "First of all, the accusations that Trump's campaign colluded with Russian agents in 2016 are not McCarthyist, both because they were highly plausible (and at least partly true) and because they had nothing to do with left-wing or Communist ideology." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "A few years ago, I was interviewing Roger Stone when he happened to use the phrase new McCarthyism, describing those who accused former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort of being a tool of Russian interests." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
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65% : The speech was a smash hit and over the course of four years, the Wisconsin senator accused countless people of either actually being Communists, being "Communist sympathizers" (whatever that meant) or being "soft on Communism," a hopelessly vague term that could be applied to almost anyone who didn't support open military confrontation with the Soviet Union.*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.