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Frank Mols - Senior Lecturer in Political Science, The University of Queensland. Frank's research interests include European Politics, Governance, Public Policy, Voter Attitude Formation, and Political Psychology. His esearch focuses on political psychology, and explores the ways in which social identity theory and self-categorisation theory can be used to refine political science perspectives on leadership, EU attitudes, and voter attitudes more generally. His research has been published in leading international journals, such as the European Journal of Political Research, Political Psychology, West European Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Public Administration, Evidence and Policy, and the Australian Journal of Public Administration

Political witch hunts and blacklists: Donald Trump and the new era of McCarthyism

Shannon Brincat, Frank Mols and Gail Crimmins report that a modern-day political inquisition is unfolding in “digital town squares” across the United States. The slain far-right activist Charlie Kirk has become a focal point for a coordinated campaign of silencing critics that chillingly echoes one of the darkest chapters in American history. They state “this is far-right “cancel culture”, the likes of which the US hasn’t seen since the McCarthy era in the 1950s.”

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Subjects: Congress, Free Speech, Legal Research, Social Media, United States Law
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