The left back then, and politicians who were more concerned about what name and image they could make for themselves over what was right for their nation, are the ones who principally underminded the entire thing.
McCarthy surely made mistakes...but he was spot on directly over the target when it came to the need for aggressively rooting out the enemy within in his day. That we were unsuccessful in completely doing so then has helped lead to the state of affairs today.
The successful demonization of McCarthy, Kruschev’s 1962 comment that the Communists will take over America “without firing a shot”, at least two generations of public school indoctrination, the left’s constant onslaught against liberty has brought us to this point where we Conservatives, if we are to be honest with ourselves, must concede defeat. There just aren’t enough of us, willing to risk it all, to stop the historically inevitable downfall of our Republic. It pains me to speak like this. That said, I’ll be there.
“concede” should be “admit” to more clearly reflect my meaning.
Quite right. The project these guys worked on has outlived their empire, and is rebuilding the “socialist paradise” in the West. Eventually, maybe there will be Western commie moles spreading their beliefs in Russia!
Maybe it was Ike who killed McCarthy. The Army has been penetrated as far back as the Manhattan project and Eisenhower probably knew that. Oppenheimer was finally got rid of, but hard to believe that someone in the Army did not know that the project was full of traitors. Oppenheimer may have escaped the noose by promising to keep quiet. All this is supposition, but McCarthy’s list must have shaken a lot of ‘respectable” people.