[Eva]

My guess is that Rabinowitz is Jewish and the Nazi/McCarthy issue is all that she thinks about in regard to McCarthy. I don't know what the circumstances of that were, so I can't make any judgement.

I would just like to summarize what I see as the main premise of the book (because so many seem to be missing the point). Ann quotes Whitaker Chambers as writing, "Other ages have had their individual traitors--men who from faint-heratedness or hope of gain sold out their causes. But in the 20th century, for the first time, men banded together by the million in movements like Fascism and Communism, dedicated to the purpose of betraying the institions they lived under. In the 20th century, treason became a vocation whose modern form was specifically the treason of ideas."

[Poohbah]

My guess is that Rabinowitz is Jewish and the Nazi/McCarthy issue is all that she thinks about in regard to McCarthy. I don't know what the circumstances of that were, so I can't make any judgement.

<sarcasm> McCarthy was complaining loud and long that the valiant Waffen-SS heroes who massacred American untermensch at Malmedy were mistreated by the US Army when they were incarcerated. I mean, the nerve of the Americans, insisting on that Americentric notion that one doesn't execute prisoners of war out of hand. We failed to show respect for the concept of diversity and moral relativism. After all, we can't judge other people by our standards. By Nazi standards, those brave young men were the very flower of civilization and served as magnificent defenders of the Aryan volk. </sarcasm>

When he discovered that the folks in Wisconsin weren't buying it, he decided to start yammering about Commies instead.