You have no idea what you are talking about. Joseph McCarthy did nothing to root out communism. What he did was make it harder to investigate and for Americans to take investigation’s serious.

He claimed over 200 members of the State Department were communist. He claimed the Army, CIA, State Department, Harry Truman, Dean Acheson, the atomic industry(probably true), and countless others of being communist. During his 2 year Senate hearings/investigations into communist no one was charged. That ended in him being mocked and started his decline. Senators stopped coming to his committee meetings or listening to his floor speeches.

His popularity and any pull he had in Washington DC was gone after a televised hearing where he charged some of the Army staff of being communist.

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The army hired Boston lawyer Joseph Welch to make its case. At a session on June 9, 1954, McCarthy charged that one of Welch's attorneys had ties to a Communist organization. As an amazed television audience looked on, Welch responded with the immortal lines that ultimately ended McCarthy's career: "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." When McCarthy tried to continue his attack, Welch angrily interrupted, "Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?" Overnight, McCarthy's immense national popularity evaporated.

He mounted investigations into homosexuality and government employees suspected of being gay. There were many government employees fired and many that were straight suspected of being gay that were fired.

His investigations into homosexuality was driven by his own homosexuality. He was seen in gay bars and with gay men in the 40’s and early 50’s. In 1953 his sexuality started to go public and at the age of 44 he married one of his office staff.(he died 4 years later)

His time in the Senate is a embarrassment to our country. Americans were fooled by a alcoholic and morphine addicted narcissist.

This post was edited on 10/13/22 at 10:22 am