"Have you LEft no sense of Decency?"

• McCarthy got too bold with his accusations. The current President, Eisenhower, was very popular and to imply that his institution (the Army) was a nest of Communists was an allegation that the public was not buying. Additionally, old Joe Welsh seemed like a kind old patriotic American granddad who was being picked on. Everyone turned on McCarthy and he was cast out into oblivion to die of Alcoholism just three years later.

• Shortly afterwards an American playwright named Arthur Miller wrote a play called "the Crucible" which paralleled McCarthyism with the Salem Witchtrials of 1692.

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