Trumka: 'Palinism' an 'ugly word'

Politico reports:

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will tell Alaskans on Thursday that there’s something “just not right” with their former governor, Sarah Palin, who he says is “getting close to calling for violence” in her rhetoric.

He’ll also predict that Palin will “go down in history like McCarthy,” referring to Wisconsin Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy, whose unsubstantiated labeling of Americans as communists and communist sympathizers during the 1950s gave the world the word “McCarthyism.”

Richard Trumka sure is an "expert" on violence. As far as Joe McCarthy goes, it appears some of McCarthy's accusations are turning out to be historical fact according to this Yale University Press book based on Soviet archives.