Donald Trump has exhibited similar characteristics to that of Senator Joe McCarthy but not in the direction that the reader might think I'm going with this statement.
I was five days old when Senator McCarthy gave that famous speech in Wheeling, West Virginia where he said that there were a significant number of communists embedded in our federal government. Some background on this is needed.
Most of our government.....and the people of America....from the mid-30s to the end of World War II were lax concerning communist infiltration in our government....this primarily because of the focus on Hitler and Nazi Germany. The communists took advantage of this lack of security and made great headway in procuring positions of influence even within the highest levels of our government.
In February of 1950 Senator McCarthy gave that speech. It was the beginning of a firestorm every bit as big as that of the Mueller investigation today. McCarthy was a Republican, and the Democrats were incensed at the attack on Roosevelt's State Department. The media sided with McCarthy's enemies as the vocal and belligerent debate continued.
The Democrats came against McCarthy with a similar vengeance as Mueller is coming after Donald Trump. In the end Joe McCarthy was censored by the Senate and became as a ghost senator....avoided by fellow senators and ignored by the press. He died a few years later at 48 years of age. The pejorative of 'McCarthyism' was and is today a sham.....as is the Mueller investigation on Russian collusion.
With the fall of the Soviet Union there were numerous intelligence dispatches and KGB papers released to the West. In that trove of information McCarthy was shown as much more on target than not in his accusations. There indeed was much communist infiltration and espionage against our government....but McCarthy for his part brought a good bit of his troubles upon himself. He tweeted....OK there were no tweets at the time....he publicly lambasted everyone who he perceived to be an enemy of his and therefore an enemy of our government. If only he had conducted himself with some semblance of self-control then the outcome might have been different....although his efforts did bring about increased awareness and safeguards from espionage and infiltration in our government.
So there is a similarity in the two men....Senator Joe McCarthy and President Donald Trump....not in that McCarthy was wrong about communist infiltration....for he wasn't....and not because President Trump is wrong about deep state corruption and a fake media....for he also is not wrong.....but both men lacked restraint....and wisdom in their efforts to warn the people of the United States of serious problems within their government.
I was five days old when Senator McCarthy gave that famous speech in Wheeling, West Virginia where he said that there were a significant number of communists embedded in our federal government. Some background on this is needed.
Most of our government.....and the people of America....from the mid-30s to the end of World War II were lax concerning communist infiltration in our government....this primarily because of the focus on Hitler and Nazi Germany. The communists took advantage of this lack of security and made great headway in procuring positions of influence even within the highest levels of our government.
In February of 1950 Senator McCarthy gave that speech. It was the beginning of a firestorm every bit as big as that of the Mueller investigation today. McCarthy was a Republican, and the Democrats were incensed at the attack on Roosevelt's State Department. The media sided with McCarthy's enemies as the vocal and belligerent debate continued.
The Democrats came against McCarthy with a similar vengeance as Mueller is coming after Donald Trump. In the end Joe McCarthy was censored by the Senate and became as a ghost senator....avoided by fellow senators and ignored by the press. He died a few years later at 48 years of age. The pejorative of 'McCarthyism' was and is today a sham.....as is the Mueller investigation on Russian collusion.
With the fall of the Soviet Union there were numerous intelligence dispatches and KGB papers released to the West. In that trove of information McCarthy was shown as much more on target than not in his accusations. There indeed was much communist infiltration and espionage against our government....but McCarthy for his part brought a good bit of his troubles upon himself. He tweeted....OK there were no tweets at the time....he publicly lambasted everyone who he perceived to be an enemy of his and therefore an enemy of our government. If only he had conducted himself with some semblance of self-control then the outcome might have been different....although his efforts did bring about increased awareness and safeguards from espionage and infiltration in our government.
So there is a similarity in the two men....Senator Joe McCarthy and President Donald Trump....not in that McCarthy was wrong about communist infiltration....for he wasn't....and not because President Trump is wrong about deep state corruption and a fake media....for he also is not wrong.....but both men lacked restraint....and wisdom in their efforts to warn the people of the United States of serious problems within their government.
