Editing McCarthyism (section)

=== Later political usage of term ===
A number of observers have compared the oppression of liberals and leftists during the McCarthy period to 2000s-era actions against suspected terrorists, most of them Muslims. In ''The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism'', author Haynes Johnson compares the "abuses suffered by aliens thrown into high-security U.S. prisons in the wake of 9/11" to the excesses of the McCarthy era.<ref>{{cite book |author=Johnson, Haynes |url=https://archive.org/details/ageofanxietymcca00john_0 |title=The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism |publisher=Harcourt |year=2005 |isbn=0151010625 |page=[https://archive.org/details/ageofanxietymcca00john_0/page/471 471] |url-access=registration}}</ref> Similarly, [[David D. Cole]] has written that the [[USA PATRIOT Act|Patriot Act]] "in effect resurrects the philosophy of McCarthyism, simply substituting 'terrorist' for 'communist'."<ref>Cole, David, "[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20011217/cole National Security State] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211044858/http://www.thenation.com/doc/20011217/cole|date=2007-02-11}}", ''The Nation'' (December 17, 2001). See also Cole, David, "The New McCarthyism: Repeating History in the War on Terrorism", ''Harvard Civil Rights–Civil Liberties Law Review'' 38, no. 1 (Winter 2003).</ref>

From the opposite pole, conservative writer [[Ann Coulter]] devotes much of her book ''[[Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism|Treason]]'' to drawing parallels between past opposition to McCarthy and McCarthyism and the policies and beliefs of modern-day liberals, arguing that the former hindered the anti-communist cause and the latter hindered the [[War on Terrorism]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Coulter, Ann |url=https://archive.org/details/treason00annc |title=Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism |publisher=Three Rivers Press |year=2003 |isbn=1400050324 |url-access=registration}}</ref> Other authors who have drawn on a comparison between current [[Anti-terrorism legislation#United States|anti-terrorism policies]] and McCarthyism include [[Geoffrey R. Stone]],<ref>{{cite news |author=Geoffrey R. Stone |date=October 17, 2004 |title=America's new McCarthyism |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2004/10/17/americas-new-mccarthyism/ |url-status=live |access-date=January 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104192406/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-10-17/news/0410170323_1_democratic-dominance-mccarthyism-partisan |archive-date=January 4, 2018}}</ref> [[Ted Morgan (writer)|Ted Morgan]],<ref>{{cite book |author=Morgan, Ted |title=Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America |publisher=Random House |year=2004 |isbn=081297302X |pages=597 et seq}}</ref> and [[Jonah Goldberg]].<ref name="Goldberg" />

Since the time of McCarthy, the word ''McCarthyism'' has entered American speech as a general term for a variety of practices: aggressively questioning a person's patriotism, making poorly supported accusations, using accusations of disloyalty to pressure a person to adhere to conformist politics or to discredit an opponent, subverting [[civil and political rights]] in the name of national security, and the use of [[demagoguery]] are all often referred to as ''McCarthyism''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rosenthal |first=Jack |date=October 7, 1984 |title=President vs. Demagogue |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/07/books/president-vs-demagogue.html |url-status=live |access-date=December 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904111135/http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/07/books/president-vs-demagogue.html |archive-date=September 4, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Boot |first=Max |date=April 2000 |title=Joseph McCarthy by Arthur Herman |url=http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/joseph-mccarthy-by-arthur-herman-9160 |url-status=dead |journal=Commentary |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721122049/http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/joseph-mccarthy-by-arthur-herman-9160 |archive-date=July 21, 2010 |access-date=April 11, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=What Qualifies as Demagoguery? |date=October 19, 2004 |title=What Qualifies as Demagoguery? |url=http://hnn.us/articles/7603.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725015101/http://hnn.us/articles/7603.html |archive-date=July 25, 2013 |access-date=December 20, 2017 |publisher=History News Network}}</ref>