"In God We Trust" was added to the paper currency in the 1950s--a result of rampant McCarthyism, as was the "under God" in the pledge of allegiance.

I think if more US citizens knew the history of the religious words being inserted during the anti-communist heyday of McCarthyism, we might see vastly different results in the overnight opinion polls.

The fanatical right wing reaction we are witnessing ought to terrify everyone who thought a revival of McCarthyism could never happen here again.