MrRodgers
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Point of order btw
Knuckledragging leftists are loathe to admit anything that doesnt fit their narrative... But McCarthy has been proven correct, re the Soviet infiltration of the American government
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Joseph McCarthy
Joe McCarthy (Joseph Raymond McCarthy, November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was a two-term Republican United States Senator from Wisconsin. He dominated the anti-communist movement in the United States, 1950-54, until his career receded after censure by the Senate. "McCarthyism" is the aggressive exposure of Communist influences in America and the people who protect them.
Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public figure to object to Communist infiltration of the United States government. A 1954 Gallup poll found that Joe McCarthy was the fourth on its list of most admired men.[1] He is now considered an American hero by many, though liberals still seek to tarnish his name.
He was noted for claiming that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers, engaged in a conspiracy to undermine the United States, inside the federal government. He was proven correct by government documents and inquiry, including decrypted Venona files.
McCarthy lost support in 1953 when he started attacking the U.S. Army and suggesting that Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower was protecting subversives. Eisenhower signaled Republicans to stop his attacks on the Army. Although McCarthy had strong support among Catholics, such as Joe Kennedy, in 1954 the Senate censured him on charges of attacking fellow Senators; this caused his influence to collapse abruptly.
The term "McCarthyism" was coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's aggressive attempts to ferret out suspects, occasionally in the absence of evidence.
I don't really give a shit about 1950's polls that were inflamed by a cynical manipulation of public opinion. To the extent there were any communists in the American govt., they were the people to go after and only with probable cause to believe they were acting against the US govt.
McCarthy made no secret of his desire for the white house and instead went after media people and celebrities, even collaborating with Hoover and the FBI to blackball many of them and who were only suspects, almost all of whom had no ties to the American communist party or any of its efforts or the alleged communists in govt.
To follow your partisan reasoning, it is the right of this country then and since who merely seek votes, influence and power through the manipulation of propaganda, innuendo and blatantly false charges with McCarthy as their poster boy at the time. Even William F. Buckley had to eventually and publicly, denounce the John Birch Society
Even still, the John Birch Society was and is another (arriving in 1958 financed then and now by the Koch bros. and predecessors) as radicals, spreading more anti-government, anti-immigration, anti-compromise, and opposed to taxes in all forms and appearances. Today, the Bircher billionaires' agenda is not the mainstream Republican businessmen's agenda.
The Koch family (historically) helped found the John Birch Society. They have financed Birchers since 1984 and remain the prime backers for these Bircher Republicans. They assure that JBS ideological slogans and xenophobic paranoia and the above tripe, define Bircher campaigns.
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