Mccarthyism In The 1950's

In the 1950’s as a result of the recent acceleration of the Cold War and the spread of communism ideology around the world, and a national neurosis concerning a communist invasion expanded, Senator Joseph McCarthy took advantage of this "Red Scare" to advance his interests. McCarthy was a Republican Senator for the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. McCarthy made claims that Soviet, Korean and Chinese communist spies occupied the federal administration. In February 1950 when McCarthy asserted in a speech given in Wheeling West Virginia that he had a file that listed of members of the Communist Party who the State Department employed. He chaired the House Committee known as the Un-American Activities. The Committee investigated thousands of people, who were thought to be Communist spies and sympathizers, this was later known as McCarthyism. No one was exempt from the wrath of McCarthy, many individuals who worked for the federal government, universities, film industry, and
McCarthyism is alive and well in today’s society. Today, Americans are observing Donald Trump exploits fears of terrorism using McCarthy’s rulebook and, going beyond McCarthy’s approach and sleaziness. McCarthy especially treated anyone who was not “with him” as an enemy, showing them total arrogance and showering them with insults. Sounding familiar, Trump has repeatedly done the same. Trump has fired eleven people for not being with him in less than two hundred days. Trump Insults competitors and disgracing them with names. Trump attacks Mexicans, stereotyping those who immigrate to the United States as “sex offenders and felons.” When in fact most Mexicans are just trying to make a living doing jobs that most Americans would not do. Like McCarthy, no one is too powerful to escape Trump’s venom such as his attack on the Muslim parents of deceased American Army hero Captain Humayun Khan, go well beyond McCarthy at his