Synonyms for mccarthyism
məˈkɑr θiˌɪz əmmccarthy·ism

Princeton's WordNet

1. McCarthyismnoun

   unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists)

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1. • Witch-hunt

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1. Mike Turner:

   With McCarthyism, we had Russia chasing after Russian communists, and now we have Adam Schiff chasing after Russian collusion and those who would collude.

2. Roger Stone:

   Chairman Schiff is engaging in the worst kind of red baiting, fear mongering, it's the new McCarthyism, and it's mudslinging.

3. Bob Briscoe:

   However, once information is released, it can never be unreleased, i look at history (e.g. McCarthyism), and I consider the possibility of a future when those with power take control over information about us stored many years before, that we did not realize was so revealing when we released it. For instance, how could I have realized that my recorded eye movements would reveal so much about my inner self?

4. Devin Nunes:

   We’re not going to get into neo-McCarthyism era where we just start bringing in Americans just because they were mentioned in a press story.

5. Ted Cruz:

   [I]t's really ugly. Quite frankly, it looked like I saw Ted Cruz commit a hate crime, in that hearing room. It was McCarthyism at its worst.