Most people in political life have role models from the past that they venerate or imitate. Donald Trump , for example, is a big fan of former presidents Andrew Jackson and William McKinley . Some of his MAGA acolytes love Richard Nixon . Lots of Democrats burn candles, literally or figuratively, to the memories of FDR , JFK , RFK (the senior, not the junior) and such quasi-political titans as Martin Luther King Jr.

In an interview with the Atlantic ’s Michael Scherer, the notorious MAGA influencer (or perhaps more specifically, Trump-whisperer) Laura Loomer identified an unusual hero who may help inspire her career: Joseph R. McCarthy .

I suggested at one point that her effort to get federal employees fired for supposed disloyalty to Trump recalled the Red Scare

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