Trump, he realized, is essentially the latest incarnation of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator from the 1950s who leveraged national anxieties about communism to brutalize his political enemies.

Senator Joseph McCarthy (right ... giving more credibility to McCarthy. McCarthy’s efforts to find anyone linked to communism became known as the ‘witch hunts’. Over 100 university lecturers ...

Such sentiments were eagerly exploited by politicians seeking to fan the flames of communist hysteria. Republican senator Joseph McCarthy was one such politician. McCarthy grabbed headlines in ...

"I have no information that Schlesinger is a Communist but if he were he would ... to teach in our schools just as he has," Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) told the voters of the nation ...

Wikipedia* On the C-SPAN Networks: Joseph Raymond McCarthy has two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1952 Broadcast. Most common tag: Communism. This is a 1952 episode ...