‘This is McCarthyism revived’: academic says claims made by Trump Administration officials are “not true”

AdvertisementOn The Pat Kenny Show, Dr. Scott Lucas, professor of International Politics at UCD’s Clinton Institute, said that White House officials are trying to invoke an American culture war. He claimed that Trump and his followers “don’t believe in the rule of law”, the judiciary, or political checks and balances; “you can choose the American system, or you can choose the Trump folks. Prof. Lucas likened statements made by Trump and Miller to those made by politicians in “Nazi Germany in the 1930s,” associating people with vermin. ‘The media’s fault’Prof. Lucas criticised the media in their approach to covering the Trump Presidencies and said they have normalized his statements. He argued that when Trump officials say they will “break the system,” the press report as if it is “just a standard process of politics within the system rather than an actual threat to it.”