Russia,  Vote 2016

Nation magazine editor denounces “neo-McCarthyite” attacks on Trump

Breathtaking.

Stephen F. Cohen, a contributing editor at the leftwing Nation magazine, accuses pro-Hillary Clinton liberals of “slurring” Donald Trump by pointing out his soft spot for Vladimir Putin and his murderous, expansionist, increasingly repressive regime.

In 1948 Cohen surely would have been a supporter of Henry Wallace and his Progressive Party campaign for president*, accusing anyone who questioned Wallace’s rosy view of Stalin– and the Soviet Union’s supposed desire for peace– of “red-baiting.”

*An excellent book which I’m currently reading