Sexual Mccarthyism
January, 1986
I have in my possession the names of 57 Communists who are in the State Department at present.--Senator Joseph McCarthy, February 11, 1950It wasn't True, but it touched off hysterics that would last half a decade. For the next five years, just being accused of Communist leanings could get you fired or blacklisted. It is a measure of the witches' brew McCarthy stirred up that in 1954, just months before the Senate finally worked up the courage to condemn him, a Gallup Poll showed that 50 percent...
