Nah. Let's not play that game. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and laid by grifters and charlatans. A Communist could easily flip that around to "the question isn't 'Was Stalin a good person's but rather 'Was Stalin's stated goal a good one.'"
Disenfranchising, a bunch of traitors inside the Military industrial complex, State Department and Intelligence community is not a good intention that leads down the road to perdition. It is in fact the duty of every American to turn on the Pentagon leadership, the spy chiefs and the drug addicted, lazy ass field operatives who care more about chasing clout than serving the country. Had they succeeded in the 50's perhaps the god damn shield and spear of the United States wouldn't have just spent the last five years attempting to subvert American democracy and overthrow a sitting president...Maybe just maybe..soyboys like Eric Ciaramella and degenerates like James Comey and Drug addicted, Organized Crime affiliated Chinese double agents like Robert Mueller and John McCain wouldn't exist.
Or are we still pretending the US defense system doesn't have a colossal wumao problem? And Federal Law Enforcement isn't hopeless compromised and the Criminal justice system isn't utterly lost to traitors?
further more, even going by pop culture. The alleged "calumnies against Actors"? Well, organized crime affiliated, drug addicted pedophiles who dabbled in occultism and larped being hardcore Marxists because the Deconstructionist views of the American communist movement would lead to legitimizing their deviant life style..is a good thing..It is unquestionably a healthy, constructive thing to do.
preemptively assaulting organized forces dedicated to the undermining of the values so many of the So called conservatives and Libertarians on this site claim they actually care about.. Is both consistent with US values and doesn't quite violate the NAP. Yet you see these very same people offering their neck to butcher's knives because if they magically commit cultural suicide it'll be a martyrdom for the values..rather than..just that..cultural suicide.
Simply put....McCarthy wasn't wrong in his goals. He was massively incorrect in his antics and a dysfunctional drunk and an alcoholic to boot. Ike could have shown a little more spine though and helped to pressure the party to yank him from that chair and replace him with someone more charismatic and maybe a functional boozer though.
You know, I'm seeing a lot of people trash-talking McCarthy. I'm not seeing much in the way of sources on the matter.
Easiest thing to do, is imply antisemitism and "oohh but he was a cryptofascist" and "No, the road to hell is paved with good intentions nevermind every single thing McCarthy warned us about has happened" are the only real arguments you'll ever here.
At best, the criticism he deserves is that he was a drunken neurotic with a sense of tact and timing that would make Stannis Baratheon blush...and to pull off what he tried to pull off...You needed someone more..I dunno..Appealing?
Yeah appealing..works.
Oh he was certainly correct but his incompetence at fighting them caused more issues then it solved. From my understanding of the man icompetance not malice.
When you let uncle Walter's mediocre predecessors make it about Hollywood, then don't even do a thing to address the fact that the "Have you no shame sir" guy was a gigantically corrupt bastard with a bunch of skeletons in his closet and he could have easily shut that preening imbecile down on live television but failed to do so...
You probably shouldn't be trying to address the
largest welfare scheme errr Defense apparatus since the Western Roman Empire started handing Germans gibs and free housing...
Well Until LBJ's coming any way..
You kinda need to be a special kind of talker for that. Case and point Reagan completely fucking over the SAG and throwing G men under the bus as closet commies and walking away smelling like Roses for it...While McCarthy had to crawl back into a bottle.
Well Nixon too..Anyone who says Tricky Dick didn't have "screen presence" is nuts....Given how he came out of this fiasco.