Ah, a kindred soul. I am an amateur McCarthy historian, and I think the slandering of him is one of the heinous things the left has done to this country. McCarthy should be revered as a hero in this country, before him, communist affiliation had been viewed as a peccadillo, or dalliance by people, slightly odd, but not necessarily a deal breaker for judging a person. It was not uncommon for someone in college in those days to have poked around with Communism.
This was aided by leftist apologists, cheerleaders, and propagandists that infested the New Dealers through the 1930’s leading up to WWII that made the Soviet Union appear to be things it wasn’t...efficient, humane, and respectable.
During and after McCarthy, it became a dirty secret with people, and openly regarded as disreputable. That is something good that came out of his public scourging.
But back to this subject...I have always felt that it should have been insanely apparent to anyone watching (as it clearly was to people like Whittaker Chambers) the nature of Communism and the nature of Americans who had Communist sympathies, when the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed.
There were non-interventionalists (and I have a modicum of respect for many people at that time who were opposed to getting involved in the war unless we had to) who were protesting outside the White House and yelling with nearly insane religious fervor from any pulpit they could reach that we should stay out of the war and not get involved in it.
Then, when Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941...these EXACT SAME people, overnight, and with no shame at all, completely and 180 degrees reversed their interventionalist stance and became the people screaming the loudest to get involved in the war.
It was enough to make your head spin with dizziness. No shame. No explanations. They went to bed being fervently against joining the war on June 21st, and woke up on June 22nd feverishly FOR joining the war.
That tells you volumes right there.
And you are right...but I understand the concept of war making strange bedfellows. Churchill had an unusually difficult transition to make in this regard, and I respect him even more for being able to suck it up and make that horrible alliance with the Soviet Communists, being the staunch anti-Bolshevist that he was leading up to that.
A very odd time in history, indeed.
FAKE NEWS even then.
ML/NJ
The communists thrived and think they should control America today.
By not killing them off in the 50’s we must do battle with them now.