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The Long, Uphill Struggle to Bring Down a Demagogue
What the history of opposition to Joseph McCarthy tells us about Trump’s future.
Near the end: Senator Joseph McCarthy with Roy Cohn in 1954.
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Susan Collins of Maine, a rare pro-choice Republican senator, said last weekend that she isn't worried that President Donald Trump's next appointment to the Supreme Court might vote to upend the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing abortion rights.
It's no shock that Collins is already shrinking from a fight. She hasn't raised a stink over much of anything: corruption, demagogy, Russian sabotage, young children shipped far from their immigrant parents without explanation or recourse.