Senator McCarthy is remembered for that due to the exact same processes and types of people who are responsible for the current mess, the Left, inclusive of Democrat Party, Media, Entertainment, Entertainment, adding in Big Tech.
Those same people who slandered McCarthy and salted the earth over his very grave to eternity as a disreputable and evil person are the ones who are going to perform the exact same hatchet act on President Trump and Conservatives.
We should no more participate in the slander of Joseph McCarthy than we should in the current and coming slander of Trump and his supporters.
But I'll heed your words, and not include his name if I see the need to quote it again. Thanks for making your very good point.
They made McCarthy the face of the hunt for Communists because he was a Republican. They always start their articles, “McCarthy and the House UnAmerican Activities Committee”. McCarthy was a Senator.
No names ever mentioned concerning HUAC. You can guess why. Most of them were Democrats.
Martin Dies Jr., (D-Tex.), 1938–1944
Edward J. Hart (D-N.J.), 1945–1946
J. Parnell Thomas (R-N.J.), 1947–1948
John Stephens Wood (D-Ga.), 1949–1953
Harold H. Velde (R-Ill.), 1953–1955
Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.), 1955–1963
Edwin E. Willis (D-La.), 1963–1969
Richard Howard Ichord Jr. (D-Mo.), 1969–1975