On Saturday night, MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin used his eponymous show to paint Republican efforts to roll back the liberal agenda on transgenders and gays as a new “McCarthyism” with guests pushing a conspiracy theory that recent actions are an “experiment” by Republicans to prepare to take rights away from a larger number of Americans later so they can stay in power.
The MSNBC host began with the tiresome historical comparison: “For about a decade in the late 1940’s and ’50s, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy spread fear and paranoia about this country by persecuting those on the left that he deemed, ‘un-American.’ Now, many of today’s Republicans are McCarthy’s ideological descendants. And one of their primary targets now appears to be the LGBTQ community.”
He continued: “In fact, just yesterday, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a law removing…
