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Originally Posted by charlieo1126@gmail.com
to help make McCarthy out to have any redeeming values is unbelievable . That’s like saying hitler built nice highways or Mussolini made the trains run on time , of course there were communist but painting a brush so wide and destroying so many lives of people could never justify his actions
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Of course, no clear reading of my post would suggest anyone was justifying McCarthy's actions. I shouldn't have to say as much, but I'm certainly not. And neither was von Hoffman, the columnist.
What the columnist
was saying is that McCarthy -
almost in spite of himself - was closer to being right about the degree to which communists existed in government than wrong, given what we know today. That doesn't make McCarthy innocent of anything. He should always be judged on his behavior, and to my knowledge nothing has changed in that regard.