I read recently that Oliver Stone wants to “rehabilitate” Adolph Hitler, Mao Tse-tung, Joseph Stalin, and Joseph McCarthy, saying that they “ ‘have been vilified pretty thoroughly by history.’ ”
It’s interesting that he would lump McCarthy in with three totalitarian dictators responsible for regimes that murdered millions. Hitler, Mao, and Stalin are heroes of the Left whereas it is the Left that has vilified McCarthy. The only thing McCarthy did was to accuse some Communist sympathizers of being Communist sympathizers.
The mistake McCarthy made was in waiting until the Communist sympathizers had gotten too firmly entrenched. I’d be interested in seeing McCarthy's image rehabilitated if it were someone other than Oliver Stone taking up the job.
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