Louisiana Senator John Kennedy resurrected the Red Scare on Thursday, reminding everyone that McCarthyism never really died—just fell into a bit of a coma.

Republican lawmakers spent the better part of a Senate Judiciary hearing grilling Biden judicial nominee Melissa Dubose, but few more than Kennedy, who outright demanded to know if she was “still a Marxist.”

“I am not, nor have ever been, a Marxist,” replied DuBose.

But Kennedy wasn’t satisfied with that, instead citing a 2000 interview she gave to the “feminist press” Women’s Studies Quarterly, in which she told the interviewer that shortly after graduating Providence College, she began working at Little Connie’s, a local coffee shop, where she said students from a private, progressive high school had her “in a Marxist phase.”

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  • @AbidanYre
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    398 months ago

    Senator Kennedy, are you still a Nazi shit stain?

  • Vaggumon
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    338 months ago

    Should have replied with “Are you still a Russian asset?”

  • @Ensign_Crab
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    228 months ago

    Heard an interview yesterday where a prominent politician repeatedly called the Democratic Party the “Democrat Party” just like McCarthy.

    It was Joe Manchin.

  • ivanafterall
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    158 months ago

    He should be played by Harland Williams in any unlikely film adaptations.

    • @[email protected]
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      58 months ago

      They’d have to wait for Harland Williams to die and then dig him up 13 months later to get the makeup right.

    • @Beelzebob
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      18 months ago

      No, that’s a different kidney bean.