Was he right?

He faced the greatest challenge of all free societies: should we give liberty to those who wish to bring tyranny and enslavement on all?

He claimed to have a list of communists. He was right that there were communists around, but the list was bullshit. He had no idea who they were and exploited fear and paranoia for political gain.

>ended foolish Vietnam war effort
>founded EPA
>ruthlessly fought communism
>built relations with China and kept it away from the Soviet/Comintern fold
>about to implement civil rights and economic protections for the little guy before getting impeached
>was cool to Elvis

Yes. Just because you're a Slytherin doesn't make you a death eater

Israeli interests and American interests are largely the same, if they weren't the Arabs would've cannibalized them years ago

Jesus Christ, kys you fucking faggot.

>founded EPA
the organization that accelerated the deterioration of the middle class, this isn't a good thing

Nice bait.
Dipshit.

Trumpist nose miner detected

Did we have a communist rebellion in the USA?

You're welcome.

This. As pointed out, there were undoubtedly Communist spies in the US government. However someone with as many vested interests as McCarthy was clearly the wrong person to do something about it.
Too many innocent people whose only "crime" was having political viewpoints that didn't conform to the status quo were ostracized.

>were ostracized

Oh boo boo poor widdle baby ;_;

I wish I could write your name on a pot shard.

Tons of people are ostracized by your progressive leftist society for th "crime" of having political viewpoints that didn't confirm to your status quo.

Your thugs attack citizens in the streets at political rallies and stop ostracized speakers from their platforms.

All McCarthy did was start naming names.

If your side's shenanigans keep up we may be forced to do a repeat...

Environmental regulations directly contribute to deindustrialization, which ultimately puts us at a disadvantage as the world military hegemon

That's what the Civil Rights movement was though

>"ostracized"
>celebrated by Hollywood
>have their story told in countless books
>were never excluded from academia
>never disowned by their families and friends, had plenty of support in powerful networks

Gee, I wish I was that "ostracized" as those commies were.

Want to know who was actually ostracized? Frank Capra, whose patriotism was considered "naive" by the cultural elites of postwar America.

There were probably spies.

But hey, lets turn our back on what makes us Americans, disregard our constitutions, due process and engage in slander and fear mongering.

>Pinochet/Shah
>capitalist
Out!

>>>/leftypol/

fuck off you pasty little virgin

>, he was able to identify with some accuracy those commies.
WEW LAD

>/pol/ considers this a viable tactic for arguments

Fuck off back to your containment board, trumpeter.

I meant by the communities of the time. Once they lost their job they were outcasts.

he was right about everything

they couldn't act on his list because there were too many (((coincidences)))

Sort of, but he was out of line calling Ike a communist.

The Venona files have verified many of his claims.

Somewhat. He was 100% that the Soviets infiltrated the States with agents. This is a guaranteed fact.

However, he purposely overestimated the amount and ability of said agents and used the political environment to his advantage by black listing or threatening to black mail political rivals.

>communists are innocent

Well he clearly failed seeing how the same people claiming he purged the commies are also claiming that cultural Marxists are everywhere

>it is okay when we or the government does it!

>muh any sort of imperialism is capitalism, even without a free market, rule of law, political rights, private property rights, etc.
>muh communism can't be imperialistic because imperialism is capitalistic by definition, muh COMECON and muh Africa never happened

The list was not bullshit, and admitting that "there were Communist spies in the US government" would be a grave understatement. Joseph McCarthy clearly had a double agent feeding him information or something. A sizable majority of the people he accused, according to the VENONA files, were likely communist spies. This meant that significant portion of the US government, at the time, was infiltrated by Communists.

Because dumb leftist idiots like you would have preferred to have let our guard down instead of admitting that McCarthy was right. The Communists began the long march through the institutions before World War II even ended.

No because he just wanted power.

>According to the Venona files

Reminder to take this with a grain of salt. The Venona files do not confirm most of the accused Soviet agents and a good deal of the supposed matched names are based entirely on conjecture.

Was McCarthy right in claiming that there are Russian spies? Of coz espionage is everywhere. Is McCarthy right to use that to bludgeon the leftists with HUAC? Nope, not in the 'land of the free'

Was it not him doing most of the brainwashing, basically
>shit, i might not get elected again, better make some shit up
>HURR DURR COMMIES
>Shit, that actually worked, better keep it up

Communists aren't human, and therefore don't have rights.

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t. classcucks
t. poor retarded classcucks

This is so stupid it doesn't even merit a response.