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Old 06-16-2017, 04:50 AM   #1327
ZNPaaneah
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Default Re: Politics and the Church

So then, is this the "biggest witch hunt in American history"?

finally a true intersection of Politics and the Church.

You need to put the Salem witch trials into the consideration unless Trump said "US history" in which case they would be excluded. Hard to say "biggest" for a witch hunt that really only encompassed one small town and a couple of teenage girls. But worst, certainly in the running for the worst witch hunt.

McCarthyism certainly comes to mind in the political arena. The Red scare (the second one) with the trial of Alger Hiss comes immediately to mind. As soon as the hearing was over it was portrayed as the biggest witch hunt, and yet had it not been for a junior congressman in his first term (Nixon) they would have dropped the investigation of Hiss, but instead they persisted and convicted him of perjury.

Interestingly, the whole McCarthyism came during Truman's presidency (a democrat) and was waged by the Republicans as a red herring to distract from the policies Truman was trying to enact. Oh the irony, you reap what you sow.

First Truman suffered the biggest witch hunt, now Trump.

As for the allegation of "No evidence of collusion"?! There is clearly evidence of Obstruction of Justice and why would you obstruct the investigation if there was no collusion? Nixon was not impeached for the break in, he was impeached for the cover up, which was obstruction of justice.
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