Fear of the other. Fear of woke, of LGBTQ+, of Black liberation, and of course the old big fear: Communism. In the age of the Cold War, right after WWII, Americans believed the Soviet Union was bankrolling worldwide liberation movements, when they could barely rebuild themselves. Longstanding institutional racism led to our anticommunism: the Black Lives Matter movement was labeled as dangerous extremism as the FBI ignored genuine dangers from the right. Has Trump become our Stalin?  On this show history professor Denise Lynn reveals what anticommunism is really about. Has it turned us into what we feared?