English-French translations for McCarthyism

• maccarthisme
• maccarthysme
  Alors, le rapport Audy balaie tous ces problèmes et voit très bien que les États-Unis sont revenus au maccarthysme douanier avec la chasse à la sécurité ou à l'insécurité. Mr Audy's report covers all of these problems and recognises that the US has returned to customs McCarthyism with a security/insecurity witch-hunt.
  Exiger des listes de suspects, comme cela est décrit dans le rapport, constituerait un exercice de maccarthysme, indigne de ce Parlement et sans doute illégal. To demand lists of suspects, as suggested in the report, would be a form of McCarthyism which is beneath the dignity of this House and, furthermore, it may possibly be illegal.

Definition of McCarthyism

• The mass pressure, harassment, and/or blacklisting used to pressure people to follow popular political beliefs
• The intense opposition to, and fear and suspicion of, Communism, particularly in the United States during the 1950s

Related words

• McCarthy
• McCarthyism
• mccarthyismi
• McCarthyismus
• McCarthyite
• McCartney