What’s funny is that Joe McCarthy was right. There were Communists infiltrating Washington and Hollywood, as proven by the Venona Papers and by testimony of Russian defectors. The famous quote that started the process to make him seem a villain was:
“Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency? Joseph Nye Welch”
McCarthy was surprised by that public accusation after a private meeting. It was gobbled up by the media, who ran with that meme. Today’s equivalent is the selected leaks and outright lies by Adam Schiff.
“Have you no decency?”
The Left certainly doesn’t, the FIBber in chief planted a story about a Russian pee pee porno video and everyone in Congress openly acussed the President of the United States of treason and being a Fascist white supremacist.
And that POS Welch was rewarded with a prominent role as the judge in Anatomy of a Murder.