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Dick Polman says, “It’s happened before.”
This is Donald Trump, on TV this morning: “Why do we insist on destroying our country?”
This is McCarthy, in 1951: “This must be the product of a great conspiracy … a conspiracy of infamy.”
This is Trump, talking about President Obama: “There is something going on with him that we don’t know about.”
The ’50s Republican party indulged Joe McCarthy, abetting him with its timorous silence, for four long years before it finally roused itself to take him down. Does the current Republican party have the moral wherewithal to renounce Donald Trump before it’s too late to avert a landslide defeat in 2016?
Follow the link for his answer.
(I did not use the same picture of McCarthy as Polman. I grabbed one that is assured to be public domain.)