The Parallels Between 1950s Red Scare and Modern Institutional Capture
Joe McCarthy was on the right side of history no matter how desperately the establishment tries to smear him.
Joseph McCarthy was on the right side of history no matter how desperately the establishment tries to smear him.
McCarthyism to Modern Institutional Subversion
For decades, the name Joseph McCarthy has been synonymous with paranoia, baseless accusations, and authoritarian overreach. "McCarthyism" has become shorthand for political witch hunts. But what if history has been written to obscure a deeper truth? What if Senator McCarthy was not a madman chasing ghosts, but a man who correctly identified the ideological subversion of American institutions, a subversion that has only grown more brazen in our time?
In the 1950s, McCarthy warned that Communists had infiltrated the U.S. government, academia, and media. Declassified documents and Soviet-era intelligence have since confirmed that he was more right than wrong. Yet the cultural machine worked overtime(and still does) to bury his warnings under a mountain of ridicule, ensuring future generations would dismiss any similar claims as mere conspiracy.
Video presents: More Deadly Than War - Author of "The Creature from Jekyll Island" G. Edward Griffin is seen here in a 1969 presentation of what we could all expect in the future.
Released earlier this month and proudly promoted by globalist propaganda outlet The Atlantic, Clay Risen’s new book is featured in his article titled, 'When America Persecutes Its Teachers: The Red Scare in Schools.' The piece is a thinly veiled attempt to reframe historical concerns about communist infiltration as irrational hysteria—clearly aimed at countering the public’s growing awareness of how deeply Marxist ideology has embedded itself throughout Western institutions, especially in education.
Marxist ideology no longer creeps quietly, it marches openly in the streets and under banners we’ve covered extensively, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), “Degrowth” and so-called "anti-racism." These ideologies have replaced merit with identity, truth with narrative, and law and reason with activism. They have infiltrated the same institutions McCarthy once sounded the alarm about: government, education, entertainment, and the press.
And now, the threat is even broader. Through global frameworks like the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 and the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset, we are witnessing the globalization of ideological control. This isn’t just about Marxism, it’s about the merging of corporate, state, and global power structures into a technocratic regime. It is what we call the rise of communo-fascism, where the labels of Left and Right are discarded in favor of centralized, totalizing authority.
This isn’t just political—it’s theological.
At its core, the revolution we’re witnessing is an assault on the doctrine of depravity—the biblical truth that mankind is fallen and in need of redemption. For generations, minds have been marinated in the godless madness of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who taught that man is inherently good and corrupted only by society. This lie has been the philosophical engine behind every modern utopian nightmare—from the French Revolution to Marxism to the Great Reset.
By denying man’s sin nature, they make the State or the “collective” the savior. And in doing so, they overthrow God’s authority and exalt their own as absolute.
McCarthy's real crime, in the eyes of the establishment, was not falsehood, but proximity to truth. He threatened to expose the mechanisms of ideological warfare long before most could see it. And for that, he was silenced, discredited, and turned into a cautionary tale.
Today, we must see clearly: the new witch hunts are against those who speak truth to power. Those who resist the new orthodoxy are censored, deplatformed, surveilled, and punished.
They’ve tried to bury truth beneath the weight of revisionist history, projects like the 1619 narrative, ideological propaganda dressed as scholarship, and the erasure of heroes who stood in the way of subversion. But truth is not theirs to rewrite. God is not mocked, and His hand has never lifted from history. The Gospel of Jesus Christ anchors us in what is eternally true, not just about God’s design for nations or wicked ideologies, but about the human soul and our desperate need for the Savior to wage war against sin.
History Killers: The Academic Fraudulence of the 1619 Project
They brought Marxist Theory to the classroom decades ago. Now we are living in the rotten fruit of it and their deceptive, anti-God, anti-human revisionist false ideology threatens to overtake the world like a weed as being the new self proclaimed moral authority.
Even with a new U.S. president in office, the signature moves of Communist revolution are still taking place quietly, infiltrating bureaucracies, reshaping policy, and attacking reality itself through establishment media talking heads.
We must understand: the revolution never needed tanks. It needed narrative control. And that's exactly what it has. (well, mostly).
For all the talk of progress and liberation, we’re watching the continued rollout of a global systems-change operation. Its agents move by stealth, cloaked in the language of equity, IHR agreements, pandemic treaties, inclusion, climate justice and carbon markets. But make no mistake, “by any means necessary” is their guiding charge. These are not reformers. They are systems disruptors, intent on deconstructing God’s design to pave the way for centralized control.
And why shouldn't we believe that communism has always been infiltrating? After all, the Communist Party USA is older than the Chinese Communist Party, (see below) and it has long been bankrolled by powerful elites, many of whom remain unnamed. From the beginning, revolutionary Marxist movements have been funded and protected by global elites who saw in them a tool to reshape society, crush national sovereignty, and centralize control.
Communism doesn’t storm gates it seeps in. It infiltrates institutions, corrupts language, redefines morality, and normalizes dependency. And once the people are demoralized, truth is replaced by ideology, and resistance is rebranded as hate.
It’s the Hegelian dialectic at work: create the crisis, provoke the reaction, deliver the prepackaged solution. And the solution, every time, is more power for them, and less freedom for you.
Yes, the Communist Party USA predates the CCP, and yes, its backers have always included powerful elites. It’s not a grassroots movement.
But we are not without hope. History may have been written by the victors, but the call is simple: Know the Word. Know the game. Speak boldly.
The enemy’s time is short. His schemes, whether Marxist or fascist in globalism garb are temporary. It’s easy to spot their schemes when you understand that fascism is the right hand of the left.
In Christ, we have eternity on a New Earth where justice will reign and every lie will be silenced. Maybe, in His Kingdom, I’ll have the chance to thank Senator Joe McCarthy face-to-face, not just for the stand he took, but for being one of the brave few who warned of the storm coming.
But above all, I thank the King of kings and Lord of lords, who raises up voices in every generation to stand against darkness. God is faithful to lift up those who will not bow. Truth belongs to Him—and so does the final word.
Cheers to Joseph McCarthy. Glory to God.
Thank you for reading!
Summer Black, Director, Armor of Truth
Historical Context: The Communist Party USA Predates the CCP
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) was founded in 1919, just two years after the Bolshevik Revolution.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wasn’t founded until 1921.
Its strategy was never about popular revolutions alone—but long-term infiltration of American institutions: labor unions, education, media, corporations and government. Communism has always operated through infiltration with the backing of elite interests.
Infiltration, Not Invasion
Communism isn’t just a political ideology—it’s a method of subversion.
It doesn’t storm gates; it seeps in through bureaucracy, academia, pop culture, and policy-making.
*** This was McCarthy’s key insight, and the reason he was so viciously targeted as he exposed the game.
Recommended Video | Historical archive:
The UNCED Earth Summit Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1992
George Hunt's presentation, given above, shows us that Global initiatives taken in the name of “sustainability” constitute a new rendition of Communism, a new false liberation ideology.
Essential Key Notes & Resource Links Regarding George Hunt’s Video Above: https://archive.org/details/GeorgeHuntUncedEarthSummit1992cobdenClubsPapersaldousHuxleythe_125/2-1-unUncedEarthSummit1992ByGeorgeHunt..mp4
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