Simple. The left was and is a bunch of commies, and they did not like McCarthy pointing out their treason.
He exposed the communist infiltration of our government...of course the left hated him. He was an honorable man that was destroyed by the left, but thankfully he got a few licks in. (In so doing he exposed Eisenhower for the RINO that he was)
Anyone who exposes the people who want to kill American has to go. It has been true since America was founded.
National socialism was already discredited after the 1939-1945 war between the socialists. The left certainly could not have international socialism also discredited. The bigger the threat you are to the left as in a union family, female, attractive, well spoken, married to a minority VP candidate like Sarah Palin the more they see it necessary to destroy you. So naturally Joe McCarthy was hated as Palin is hated by the left.
Because he OUTED them. They had their nice little plan to ‘transform’ American and they got nailed. They had to go back to drawing board and it took decades to recover.
Nixon and McCarthy: two American heroes.
That's easy.
Because he was right.
His suspects (the usual ones we still have today) were enemies of the country, overt communists and the sneaky ones, pretending to be activists. Traitors, every one.
All, directly or indirectly supported in spirit and in cash by the Soviet Union.
Read the "Venona" papers.
Also...
Blacklisted by History by M. Stanton Evans
How we found our about that spy is far more interesting. Victor Sorge, who'd penetrated the Manhattan program himself on behalf of Joe Stalin, reported that fact back to the Kremlin.
Apparently Stalin himself reported that there was a spy in the program working for Japan ~ and that's when all hades broke loose ~ because for the Soviets to tell us about the spy for Japan they were also telling us they'd penetrated the program to build "the Bomb"!
Stalin had an interest in the successful completion of "the Bomb" ~ just in case the Red Army faltered, or Hitler came up with advanced weapons.
He also had an interest in "the Bomb" itself ~ he wanted one, or a dozen.
The Leftwingtards who thought the spies were doing well by sending our secrets to Stalin tended to justify that with the "no nation should have a monopoly on something that powerful". They had no idea that Stalin had, for all practical purposes, partnered with us in building "the Bomb".
He probably should have pulled his spies and taken them to Moscow to safety as soon as everyone realized we had TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF BOMBS, were working on a fission fusion device and there were plenty of unemployed Germans around who could be picked up to complete the Soviet's own atom bomb program later.
Well, Stalin was not a nice guy so he let his spies hang (or fry), got the German engineers anyway, and set off his own test bombs.
The Left, as is usually the case, is stupid. Most of them simply cannot detect evil and imagine the good guys are plotting against them.
Being a Leftwingtard is to have a serious mental illness that degrades your ability to make judgments and can get you killed.
“When you’re catching flak that means you are over the target.”
They hate him because,as was the case with Nixon vs Hiss,McCarthy was on the right track on the subject of Commie infiltration of the US Government...an infiltration that continues to this day.
Young Americans have been led to believe that communism wasn't all that bad. They have no idea about the spread of communism and the Soviets determination to dominate the world.
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Because the Left is a bunch of communists. McCarthy had the guts to call a spade a spade and the Left doesn’t like to hear the truth about themselves. They prefer to hide behind labels like “compassionate” and “pro-democracy” as they subvert the United States.
McCarthy was completely vindicated by the Venona Papers (in the Library of Congress, I believe). He was right. We WERE infiltrated.
I never understood why McCarthy was so hated but his henchman Bobby Kennedy was so loved.
I never understood why McCarthy was so hated but his henchman Bobby Kennedy was so loved.
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Because they love their fellow comrades.