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…had firsthand exposure to mobsters, presiding as he did over numerous inquiries into union corruption, rackets, and other Mafia misdeeds. …Inwardly he seethed, exasperated at the uncooperative, brazen mobsters who openly defied the government and considered themselves a law unto themselves. A rock-hard Christian fundamentalist (my emphasis), McClellan possessed an Old Testament sense of righteousness and was generally portrayed as a kind and considerate man, but one who truly believed in right and wrong and punishment for evildoers (Raab, 176)

Inwardly he seethed, exasperated at the uncooperative, brazen mobsters who openly defied the government and considered themselves a law unto themselves. A rock-hard Christian fundamentalist

…evildoers?

…wars and evildoers…

…prior to '77

Acts contrary to and/or defying corporatist rule(s) won't bring tears to my eyes.

The Mafia families, … were comparable to well-managed, complex industrial corporations. “They were the mirror image of American capitalism (174).”

* "'McCarthyism' means pointing out positions taken by liberals that are unpopular with the American people. As former President Bush said, 'Liberals do not like me talking about liberals.' The reason they sob about the dark night of fascism under McCarthy is to prevent Americans from ever noticing that liberals consistently attack their own country."

* "Liberals have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason."

…scrub up

The reason they sob about the dark night of fascism under McCarthy is to prevent Americans from ever noticing that liberals consistently attack their own country.

…testify at the HUAC hearings…

It’s as inaccurate as referring to AC as a narcissist and as a megalomaniac.

But don’t worry. I might have gotten caught in that one myself.

The posturing of Joseph McCarthy was ever-present throughout congress and throughout these hearings.

The committee's anti-communist investigations are often confused with those of Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy, as a senator, had no direct involvement with this House committee (topic: HUAC, Wikipedia.)

It is a bit unwieldy to quote references without citing their source -as you seem to have done (or did you write that yourself?).

As for McCarthyism, the real tragedy was in the fact that otherwise decent human beings were forced into the position of either being destroyed professionally by refusing to testify at the HUAC hearings; or destroying the lives of others by cooperating in the hunt for the commies who were allegedly hiding under the beds of God-fearing Americans.

But had you gone to wikipedia, you would have found the following:

McCarthyism is the term describing a period of intense anti-Communist suspicion in the United States that lasted roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s.

The historical period known as McCarthyism began well before McCarthy's own involvement in it. There are many factors that can be counted as contributing to McCarthyism, some of them extending back to the years of the first Red Scare (1917-1920), and indeed to the inception of Communism as a recognized political force.