The Smith Act persecuting the left was passed by a Democratic president

Evidence

After all, the Smith Act, which was used to persecute the left during the Cold War, was passed under Democratic president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 543

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges readers’ party-line assumption that civil-liberties crackdowns are Republican projects — connects to Kumar’s cross-party repressive-state theme.