Shoq on Nostr: It was liberal orthodoxy, driven by McCarthy’s excess, that made it stylish to ...
It was liberal orthodoxy, driven by McCarthy’s excess, that made it stylish to believe that there was never any merit to the red scares of the 50s. But there was. Overblown often, sure, but not completely without some reality to some of the hysteria. At McCarthy not overreached, he would have been more effective.
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