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Archae

(46,337 posts) Sat Aug 14, 2021, 11:01 AM Aug 2021

One of the myths about Joe McCarthy...

I watched a documentary several months ago about Joe McCarthy, his rise and fall.

One of the myths about McCarthy is that after his censure by the Senate, he died in disgrace.

He didn't.

He did die after drinking himself to death, but his funeral was a grand event, with his body lying in state.

https://apl.org/node/944

At the funeral, he was celebrated, and is still being celebrated by prominent right-wing groups and people.

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One of the myths about Joe McCarthy... (Original Post) Archae Aug 2021 OP

Having a bunch of John Birch-ers at his wake isn't the same as not dying in obscurity. marble falls Aug 2021 #1

McCarthy died in disgrace. Progressive dog Aug 2021 #2

marble falls

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1. Having a bunch of John Birch-ers at his wake isn't the same as not dying in obscurity.

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Sat Aug 14, 2021, 11:11 AM

Aug 2021

Progressive dog

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2. McCarthy died in disgrace.

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Sat Aug 14, 2021, 11:42 AM

Aug 2021

There will be no statues of him.

He died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1957, at 48, and his name already had become a byword, “McCarthyism,” for smear campaigns, malicious and unfounded.

McCarthy, James Wechsler wrote that year in the New York Post, was a “creature of a time of national frenzy and frustration.”

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/19/trump-mcarthyism-joe-mccarthy-219373/

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