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'Never forgets an enemy': Expert reveals 'eerie parallel' between Trumpism and McCarthyism

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Richard Sennett's family was hounded by then-Sen. Joseph McCarthy 's House Un-American Activities Committee .

His family was targeted by McCarthy 's chief counsel, Roy Cohn , who was also a mentor to a young Donald Trump .

Sennett wrote that the "necessity of resistance" to McCarthyism fundamentally transformed his family.

He warned that as pervasive as McCarthyism was in its heyday, Trumpism is much darker.