Eisenhower sure didn't mind him in 1952. McCarthy was somewhat responsible for the Republicans taking the White House.

No one ever said McCarthy was a victim. He fucked up and became his own worst enemy in the end. It still does not discredit the good things he had done. He exposed a lot of communists. We were also well into the Cold War and who knows how things may have turned out if America did not come to terms with the pro-Soviet and pro-communist element within it's midst.

He wasn't a victim but he has become one of the most demonized figures of the last 50 years or so. Is it any coincidence that most of the demonization is from the left.

McCarthy as a junior senator would never have gained the power he had at his peak if he was wrong from the start. It's too bad he crumbled.

The House Committee on Un-American Activities is needed again. We are at war and much of the enemy is within.