McCarthy wanted to pull up the weeds while there were only one or two in the garden. Instead, they were allowed to flourish, and today’s Democrat party is the result.
He was right the whole time... It’s when the MSM commenced as the cornerstone of all ‘fake’ news, from that point to the present.
Actually he was late. The media had already been infected by the commies and controlled the narrative.
McCarthy was right!......he was prescient in knowing the direction we were going
Now our valiant President has to pull up all the chaff allowed to grow these many years in our government
......of course someday God will pull ALL the chaff
My tag line for the last five years.
The infection has spread to the entire body.
McCarthy was vindicated by Soviet archives, the Venona Papers, by M. Stanton Evans.
Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies
https://www.amazon.com/Blacklisted-History-Senator-McCarthy-Americas-ebook/dp/B000W94GOU
I was surprised that the Commies stopped him cold with just one question, when all the evidence was on is side. The beginning of ‘emotion politics’ the Dems have been pulling ever since.
Joe McCarthy wasn’t early.
After the Soviet collapse the Soviet Venona files proved every Government worker he went after actually was a Soviet operative.
House Committee on Un-American Activities.
The Communist Left has tried to insinuate that the House’s activities were un-American.
Joe McCarthy nailed it! He wasn’t “early”. He pointed out the commies in government and got destroyed by the dem/libs and the MSM. The democRATS of the day were a breeding ground for the commies.
No he was not early.
He was late, and so are we.
Both proposals of course were wrong. No reason to favor the children of fallen soldiers only if they go to college. Probably good for those kids, like other American kids, to work their own way through school if they are committed to study.
But the whole illegal thing is unconscionable.
There were also Communists and Communist sympathizers. One problem was separating them out from people had divergent views on politics. McCarthy wasn't that good at it, but in truth, it would have been very difficult to sort out people who loved Mao or Ho from those who thought that engaging with them could moderate their activity.
Things aren't worse today than they were in the Forties and Fifties.
Joe McCarthy was being leaked the information that he was using, probably from someone inside the FBI who was involved in ferreting out Communist agents inside the government. So a lot of what he claimed was accurate.
But McCarthy was also making irresponsible charges for which he had no evidence. Maybe they were his opinion, or maybe his source was using McCarthy to get payback.