David Frum

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David Frum @davidfrum

The Jim Jordan hearings will likely go the same way. They'll huff and puff and gesticulate - they'll allege a "conspiracy so immense" (as McCarthy himself used to say) - and in the end they'll deliver a communist-sympathizing Army reservist dentist at a training camp. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 13, 2023

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David Frum @davidfrum

The Peress case wreaked reckless and unjust havoc on many Army careers. But in the end, the hearings smashed to bits McCarthy's central claim of a communist conspiracy pervading the Army and national defense. https://t.co/lJHQsMPgHd https://t.co/zaT54ZGfJS — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 13, 2023

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The McCarthy attack on the army originated in partisan payback: vengeance for the firing of the GOP military hero, Douglas MacArthur. But by 1953, there was a Republican president who agreed that MacArthur had to go. Peress was a consolation prize for the radical right of the day — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 13, 2023