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Thiswillbeintheexam 3 points ago +6 / -3

McCarthy only had success because the Communists in Hollywood and government were split over the USSR's action. They were all selling each other out.

The communists didn't go away, they just stopped throwing each under the bus to the Feds.

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almond_activator 13 points ago +13 / -0

You've bought into the chief lie about Senator McCarthy - conflating his entirely legitimate, documented, well-researched campaign against literal foreign agents in the State Department with the half-cocked House Un-American Activities Committee whose tenure ended a decade before he took office.

Senator McCarthy wasn't going after Angelina Jolie. He was after Fang Fang and Rep. Swalwell.

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