“Have you no sense of decency?”

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Hamilton 68 and the Hoax Of The Century.

In 1950, Sen. Joseph McCarthy claimed that he had proof of a communist spy ring operating inside the government. Overnight, the explosive accusations blew up in the national press, but the details kept changing. Initially, McCarthy said he had a list with the names of 205 communists in the State Department; the next day he revised it to 57. Since he kept the list a secret, the inconsistencies were beside the point. The point was the power of the accusation, which made McCarthy’s name synonymous with the politics of the era.

For more than half a century, McCarthyism stood as a defining chapter in the worldview of American liberals: a warning about the dangerous allure of blacklists, witch hunts, and demagogues.

Until 2017, that is…

But it’s about much more than that. Grab a coffee, send it on.

12 Replies to ““Have you no sense of decency?””

  2. McCarthy was never wrong about the communist infiltration of the US and its government. One might condemn his methods but over time he’s been proven right. Obamaism is the result. The long march through the institutions and the slow rot from within have quickened their pace.

    1. Thomas

      As was Yuri Bezmenov..in his should be by now, famous interview in the early ’70’s.

      Bang on the both of them…as we can clearly see on a daily basis.

  3. Any discussion of Senator McCarthy needs to include information about the Venona Project.

    1. This. Every time people roll their eyes about McCarthy or Bezmenov, I point out that the Venona intercepts proved everything they accused.

      The Champagne Communists then resort to claiming that the Soviet Union was so broke and ineffective that the moles were lying about their activities and assets to make their home office handlers happy.

      Helicopters. Helicopters are the only way out of this.

  4. is the person who wrote the article are unaware of the Venona Papers (1995) and the Mitrokhin Archive(1992), which likely vindicate Senator McCarthy, who unfairly gets tarred by the actions of HUAC, which he wasn’t a part of.

    But for most of them, history only began yesterday

    1. They vindicate McCarthy, in the sense that they prove that he was by no means always talking shit, and was indeed substantially right most of the time. That doesn’t mean that he never talked shit. Sometimes he did so deliberately and not for legitimate reasons. People caught him out, at the time and later. He was a warts-and-all kind of guy, and sometimes heavy on the warts.

  5. Tablet mag nails it. How telling that not a single executive of a top 100 company would contribute to Trump. They are enemies of every American, sending the Chinese the technology to destroy us. And Trump is the largest threat to the US military industrial complex. I haven’t heard a single retired general or admiral speak out against the DemRepublican policy of permanent war.

    Interesting that the “Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act” , the foundation for all the harassment of Americans on social media, was passed with overwhelming bipartisan support ( 92, aye, 7 no ). The Supreme Court should immediately strike it down in full, on 1st amendment grounds.

    This author of the article, Jacob Siegel, will soon find his phone tapped, and IRS agents will show up to his house to deliver political persecution to his doorstep, as Matt Taibbi recently experienced.

    The IRS employees, as well as every Federal employee who has power over Americans , should immediately have their employment designated “ at will “, as Trump did to the VA employees when the scandalous conduct of VA employees towards veterans was revealed. Then, they would nit be so willing to abuse Americans.

    Go, Donald, go.

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