A key Republican on the Federal Election Commission has raised new claims that Democrats are angling to regulate conservative free speech and the Internet just like McCarthyism tried to silence the left in the 1950s.

“We can’t go back to that era. Whether now it is the left attacking conservative right speech but at that time it was conservatives attacking liberal speakers and associations,” warned FEC Commissioner Lee Goodman in a broadcast for the RealClear Radio Hour and Competitiveness Enterprise Institute.