The only great tragedy of the McCarty era was that Joe was a grandstanding nitwit whose over the top antics helped to discredit his cause and create a moral defense for socialists to play on the minds of shallow thinkers.
The nation would be a lot better off if he’d been comparatively dull and we kept our proverbial feet on the necks of nitwits like in the video.
People like that should be UNEMPLOYABLE, and certainly kept out of any position of Trust.
No one should be unemployable. Deport their a**es to China where they can live out productive marxist lives in a sweat shop compound. That’ll teach them.
Joseph McCarthy was precisely right. Read: “Black-Listed by History”. There were numerous Soviet spies in the U. S. government in the 1940’s. Among them was Harry Dexter White, ALger Hiss, and, Henry Wallace. This was all confirmed by the Venona Transcripts