NB. When Trump refers to "the enemy within..."
When Trump refers to "the enemy within," he is referencing the title of Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy’s 1950 infamous speech, “The Enemy Within."
McCarthy, as in drunken fiasco Joe McCarthy. As in Ann Coulter hero, Joe McCarthy. As in chief counsel to Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn. As in Joe McCarthy fan-boi. William F. Buckley.
That is the origin of that phrase.
In the 1950's almost every major conservative journalist and politician defended Joe McCarthy.
Senator Barry Goldwater voted against McCarthy’s censure in 1954.
William F. Buckley went to bat for McCarthy in his 1954 book McCarthy and His Enemies.
Buckley applauded McCarthy for recognizing that “coercive measures” were necessary to enforce a new anticommunist “conformity.”
Can't get any more conservative than using coercive measure to get monolithic conformity, amiright?
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