When I saw the picture accompanying the comments of Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruz talking about "having a list of Communists on the Harvard Law faculty", I'm reminded of the adage, and I paraphrase:
"If it looks like a McCarthy, talks like a McCarthy and acts like a McCarthy, it probably is a McCarthy"
Dan Johnson
11:20 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
"The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power."
Henry A. Wallace