This person made Joe McCarthy look like a Sunday school teacher

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Palmer Raids - Wikipedia

Served in the WIlson administration as AG. But you rarely hear left wingers refer to Mitchell Palmer.

 

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Maybe the reason is that it happened a long time ago. Maybe the reason you don't hear "leftists" talk about him and his raids is because those raids were against the leftists.

From your link................top of the page that gives a summary of what happened............

The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 during the First Red Scare by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arrest suspected radical leftists, mostly Italian and Eastern European immigrants and especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States. The raids particularly targeted Italian immigrants and Eastern European Jewish immigrants with suspected radical leftist ties, with particular focus on Italian anarchists and immigrant leftist labor activists. The raids and arrests occurred under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, with 3,000 arrested. Though 556 foreign citizens were deported, including a number of prominent leftist leaders, Palmer's efforts were largely frustrated by officials at the U.S. Department of Labor, which had authority for deportations and objected to Palmer's methods.

The Palmer Raids occurred in the larger context of the Red Scare, the fear of and reaction against communist radicals in the U.S. in the years immediately following World War I and the Russian Revolution.[1] There were strikes that garnered national attention, race riots in more than 30 cities, and two sets of bombings in April and June 1919, including one bomb mailed to Palmer's home.


And, even though Palmer was a Democrat, he rounded up communists and leftists, especially if they were Italian or Jewish immigrants. And, based on what a lot of you conservatives have posted on these boards, you'd think that you guys would have been okay with what he did. I hear lots of conservatives on here who want to lock up all the leftist and progressives, because they suspect them of being communist. Not only that, but it also deported a lot of immigrants, which conservatives love.