Now dear leader is bowing to animated inanimate objects. Any chance Smidgeon will be running in 2016? Probably not, but I’ll bet he’s going to vote Democrat at least once.
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.”
McCarthyism in the HUAC got Hollywood dupes fired, not McCarthy himself, that’s correct. Similarly, Barry can’t be directly linked to the removal of Mozilla’s CEO, but Mr. Justice sure doesn’t seem to see anything wrong with it.
“I abhor their (communist) philosophy, but I detest more than that their tactics, which are those of the fifth column, and are dishonest, but at the same time I never as a citizen want to see our country become urged, by either fear or resentment of this group, that we ever compromise with any of our democratic principles through that fear or resentment. I still think that democracy can do it.” Ronald Reagan testimony before HUAC