McCarthy, because people like him hold power and abuse it. The damage he caused far outweighed any benefit to his witch hunts. Do you know why he fell out of favor?
Yes, they do it on both sides (FDR and his court packing scheme).
And you want to put them in charge of health care ?
BTW: How were they witch hunts if he was correct in his accusations ?
You have not addressed the earlier premise.
He was not correct, just because he managed to uncover some communists does not mean that they were actual security risks or that his methods were honorable. He had no respect for due process or the first amendment right of free association,QUOTE]
You would do yourself some good to read history. He uncovered soviet spies in the state department and beyond. Those were not mere communist party card members. They were Kremlin operatives.
McCarthy WAS Blacklisted by History. A book of the same name gives 600+ pages (6 years of research) of the low down on how far the soviet espionage went. Read it.
he turned the real fight against soviet infiltration into a partisan circus where an accusation was as good as a conviction. He dealt in fear rather than facts and managed to ruin many innocent lives for his own aggrandizement
You have to know your history to understand this is wrong. Dead wrong.