McCarthy’s List

He said there were communists in the government. He was right, and the proof stayed sealed for fifty years.

On Tuesday a slate of Democratic Socialists swept the New York primaries. POTUS called them Communists. My algorithm on X was full of the same sentiment: we owe Joe McCarthy an apology. And they’re right.

Here is the room where it started.

The Room

Wheeling, West Virginia. …