Sigh.
McCarthy was a patriot.
McCarthy was right.
Communists had infiltrated the US government and he was trying to stop a real threat.
The Democrats, on the other hand, are attempting to overthrow a lawfully elected President. This is not McCarthyism.
I was going to post roughly the same thing. McCarthy was absolutely right about the dangers of communism and the infiltration of communists into the government. The epithet “McCarthyism”was created by communists to discredit him. Read “Witness” for details on how they ran these campaigns.
I suppose the parallel here would be Trump calling out the dangers of a corrupt FBI, CIA, and Democrat Party and the Democrats then running a scare campaign against “Trumpism” and what an evil danger said Trumpism is to the country. So far, the Dems and all the Obama embeds have not run such a campaign to discredit and smear Trump.
Strassel is smart, but she is way off base on this analogy. Now I’ll read her article (if I can find it not behind the WSJ paywall).
McCarthy was, indeed, right. So called McCarthyism just got out of hand. And those tactics are pretty clearly what the left is doing. The author of the op is late to the party.
Yes, McCarthy was right about the commies in the state dept. But when the term McCarthyism is used (almost exclusively by the left), it refers to untrue allegations, a "witch hunt", etc. So, yes, the Russia investigation is "McCarthyism" as the left defines McCarthyism.
The McCarthyism thing aside, the Republicans in Congress need to give this witch hunt a deadline, no more than 60 days out (preferably 30). The deadline is “either come up with some real evidence of Russian collusion or we cut the money and end the authorization.”
If there was real evidence, there would be indictments by now.
Yes, I know. You all want it shut down last week. But that’s not how the game is played. Give them notice, then shut it down. There’s no harm in waiting an extra 30 days for something they will never have anyway and we win the PR war.
This.