An Attack on Intelligence
Not in my lifetime,β I used to think when contemplating Americaβs decline and fallβa decline and fall I eagerly anticipate as a prelude to remaking our crumbly republic such that it stands for the ideals it professes to uphold but unreservedly ignores. Bli...
I think his point is:
The βthreatβ of communist takeover was then as the βthreatβ of anti semitism is today - a rhetorical bludgeon used to erode American liberty. He may or may not consider the possibility of a communist takeover in the 1950s as having been a plausible reality.
Imo, to say that we are ruled by βcommunistsβ is I think a bit short sighted. βCommunismβ and βcapitalismβ are both rungs of the ladder far below the actual ideology of whoever engineered the βtake-overβ, and regarding when it occurred, I think convincing cases could be made for dates far earlier than the 50s
Except that we now have been able to look at the KGB archives, and the Venona intercepts were declassified, and now we know that the "threat of communist takeover" was real. Commies had infiltrated the government, and McCarthy was absolutely correct.
Furthermore, social justice is communism applied to social dynamics, instead of class, and we all know social justice is the dominant religion of academia and the professional class.
Additionally every person who was tried and escaped from McCarthy ended up being a literal spy. Including the investigation that led to his fall from favor. McCarthy was a hero.