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Even if these didn't involve Trump, it looks like these examples don't even qualify for Crying Wolf itself, and they look like blatant shoehorning. I'd just nuke it.
The first one looks like an example, but seems inadvisable under the rule of cautious editing judgement. The second I think is not even an example, as i haven't seen a single spokesperson for the left criticize the Russia investigation or connect it to Mc Carthyism in the first place. Just nuke them both.
Edited by TheBigBopperTropers.Laptop Guy re-added the first bullet in OP on 20 July
after Tropers.Mr Media Guy 2 nuked it on 15 June.
The only change was the wording of "undermined their own credibility when an actually-racist candidate ran for office" to "undermined their own credibility when an candidate who a large swath of the country genuinely believed was racist ran for office."
That doesn't seem to qualify as an example of the trope, since it requires that the person crying wolf is now telling the truth — not merely believing that they're telling the truth. Belief does not equal truth, for one thing, but for another, the example — as already mentioned in this thread — is probably best to keep off the page anyway because of the ROCEJ. If the example were not as recent as it is, then maybe it wouldn't be so worrisome in that regard, but I think the example should just be cut and kept off the page.
Look at all that shiny stuff ain't they pretty

A couple days ago, I mentioned these two examples from Crying Wolf on the Trump and ROCEJ
thread, but no one responded. Do you think these examples should be removed?
- According to commentators such as Robby Scave of reason.com
and Bill Maher
, this trope contributed to Donald Trump's election in 2016. By characterizing past Republican candidates such as Bush, McCain, and Romney as racists supported by racists and otherwise undesirable people, the left (including Maher himself), undermined their own credibility when an actually-racist candidate ran for office.
- When it was revealed that key members of Trump's campaign team had links to Russia, some people on the left dismissed these claims as Red Scare-style paranoia, even calling belief that Russia interfered in the 2016 election "neo-McCarthyism," remembering anti-Russian and anti-communist hysteria in the '50s. Then FBI Director James Comey did confirm that the FBI was investigating Russian interference in the election in a hearing before Congress.
Edited by MrMediaGuy2