What would Senator Joe McCarthy think of Trump?

Joe McCarthy presides at a hearing of the Senate Investigations Subcommittee, with committee counsel Roy Cohn, right. ... read more

There is an interesting thread of depravity connecting Joe McCarthy and Donald Trump. Roy Cohn, the infamous New York lawyer and Red-baiter, was McCarthy’s ghoulish chief counsel during the Senate witch-trial hearings in 1954 and architect of McCarthy’s character assassinations in the name of Communist conspiracy theories. read more

First, McCarthy, like Trump, was an opportunist, not a zealot. Although the Wisconsin senator later grew famous hunting communists, communists in the Milwaukee branch of the Congress of Industrial Organizations played a key role in his initial Senate victory in 1946. read more