My cartoon wasn’t intended to disparage McCarthy, but to point up the hypocrisy of the Left which presumably would not like being labeled as McCarthyites, although they are far worse in their abuse of government power. Having a Federal government which has the power to make citizens fear it is the real problem.
Ronald Reagan had a closer view of the era than you or I and he thought “McCarthy was using a shotgun when he should have used a rifle.”
I think it is a *great* cartoon...
Ronald Reagan had a closer view of the era than you or I and he thought “McCarthy was using a shotgun when he should have used a rifle.””
McCarthy never made citizens “fear” the government. He investigated and exposed Communists agents within the government.
Your Reagan quote is interesting. I don't know when it was said but the fact is Senator McCarthy was much more astute and knowledgeable about communist infiltration than Reagan was at the time. Reagan was a liberal New Deal Democrat in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. Reagan said that it was only after reading Witness by Whitaker Chambers that he began to understand the extent of the Communist threat.