[InterceptPoint]

Do you think it is any different in this country?

Who hasn’t heard of McCarthyism? Who has heard of Alger Hiss?

McCarthy was a U.S. Senator who was mostly right even if he did push things a bit far. The communist threat he was concerned with was real.

Alger Hiss was an ultra-liberal and a Soviet Spy. The Left denied that for over 40 years but the Soviet archives that were opened in 1992 proved his guilt. You are not going to learn that in a U.S. classroom these days.

[instantgratification]

You are wrong. The Soviet archives proved the Rosenbergs were guilty. But nothing proved Alger Hiss had anything to do with the Soviets. The GRU general who ran Soviet intelligence up to the early 1940's , Gen. Pavlov, stated Hiss was not a Soviet agent. So did the KGB officer who searched the archives after the collapse of the USSR (Gen. Kobyakov) and the prime archive researcher, who has been searching the archives since the collapse of the USSR.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Who hasn’t heard of McCarthyism? Who has heard of Alger Hiss?

McCarthy was a U.S. Senator who was mostly right even if he did push things a bit far. The communist threat he was concerned with was real.

Even that understates the case. McCarthy didn't "push things too far," he simply tried to investigate the issue openly and reasonably. The "objective" journalists and the "liberal" politicians, being as tendentious then as they are now, demanded that he name who the communists were, for the purpose of of condemning him after he did it.

The reality was that communist penetration of the US government was far more extensive than Senator McCarthy ever claimed. But as far as the "objective" journalists and the "liberal" politicians were concerned, opposing communists at all was "pushing things too far."