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,” Mr. Fried shows why incessant lying was an effective tool for the Republican senator and his allies amid anti-communist hysteria.
“He learned early that he could get away with a lie. In the 1939 race for state district court judge [in Wisconsin], he was able to lie about his age,” said Mr. Fried, professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. After winning the 1946 Senate race, McCarthy’s first cause in Washington wasn’t anti-communism. Instead, he attacked the U.S. Army for allegedly abusing German prisoners of war who were tried and convicted in the. Incredibly, the junior senator from Wisconsin unfavorably compared the treatment of the German POWs to the crimes of the Nazis.
“There are a lot of different theories, none of which has been nailed down, as to what possessed him to get into this,” Mr. Fried said. “I just think he was looking for something.” Indeed, McCarthy was more opportunist than ideologue, as contemporaries questioned the authenticity of his anti-communism because it wasn’t based on a deep understanding of Marxism-Leninism.
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