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We’ll say goodbye to the “Red Scare Next Door” in Evansville, Indiana and travel East to the Green Mountains of Vermont where it turns out that even Republicans can be Red-Baited. We can turn the page in the anti-labor playbook but all we’ll find is the same old story featuring Henry Wallace, the Communist Party, red-baiting politicians, and smear tactics …

The “Red Scare,” often called McCarthyism, went much deeper than what was directed by Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s and had, even as early as the late 1940s, a broad reach into the states. Local “scares” were often instigated by individuals, mini-McCarthys, who would red-bait state and city politics. But this “fear of communism” in the backyard, like …