You may choose to cede the language to the leftists, or whatever else your conscience will allow. Call it a witch hunt, or jihad...
Only weakness would allow smearing a patriot’s name in pursuit of winning a damn argument.
> Only weakness would allow smearing a patriot’s name in pursuit of winning a damn argument. <
With all due respect, it’s not a damn argument. It’s a damn war. And so I’ll use whatever works. Because this is not a war we can afford to lose.
As a side note, words evolve over time. “McCarthyism” now refers less to the man, and more to a system where dissenters are blacklisted.
Today’s leftists are certainly trying to blacklist anyone who disagrees with them. That is McCarthyism in the modern sense of the word. And it WILL sting when we accuse them of that. Is that unfair to McCarthy the man? Oh, yes. But it is what it is.
I do understand that you do not agree, and feel that McCarthy’s legacy should be taken more into account. I respect that.