Word: mccarthyism
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...John Adams referred to Alexander Hamilton as that "little West Indian bastard." . . . To hold F.D.R. responsible for McCarthy because F.D.R. had striking success in stigmatizing his opponents seems to me to overlook the long history of political invective, and to ignore the real (and much more dangerous) roots of McCarthyism...
Then Editor Gore ran into trouble. A year ago, objecting to Senator Joe McCarthy's attacks on President Eisenhower, he called on his fellow Wisconsinites "to shake off the soiled and suffocating cloak of McCarthyism." Then Editor Gore stepped out of his role as newspaperman. As his idea caught on, he used his job plant to print petitions for McCarthy's recall, and he organized the Joe Must Go Club to handle the flood of incoming mail and petitions. He also made speeches around the state, found himself a rallying point for anti-McCarthyites...
...group has not done enough to prove that its moderate colors are fast, but there are encouraging signs. Unlike its rival, the Conservative League, the Club has not damaged its own reputation with talk of spying or questionable outside ties. The New Conservatives have, morcover, specifically condemned McCarthyism as "a new radicalism of a most deceiving and dangerous nature." After blocking an attempted coup by old Conservatives, the Club has begun to plan a positive program for the spring term. Its leaders now have the chance to demonstrate student conservatism at its best...
Matusow had been making a miserable $35 a week as a Red errand boy, and he had noted the rise of McCarthyism. Matusow now says that anti-Communism looked like "a good racket." He was soon in business right up to his mouth. He named more than 150 persons as Communists (the fact that many of them were was purely coincidental). He testified against the 13 second-string Communist leaders (Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, et al.); he was a witness in the trial of Clinton Jencks, official of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. He appeared four times before...
Whatever the consequences of his indictment, however, he no longer laughs off the charge of "Communist" although in the newly-convened Congress the Wisconsin Senator is not chairman of the Investigations subcommittee, Lamont considers McCarthyism an uninterrupted threat to personal freedom. "It is a great responsibility," he says, "to find oneself suddenly in the front lines of the continuing battle of McCarthy versus the American people." But always the freewheeling rebel, Lamont could not refrain from adding: "It is a privilege...