The irony is that when Tail Gunner Joe ran against progressive La Follette for US Senate seat, McCarthy was supported by the Wisconsin CP and CIO. Details in a piece by Robert Schaeffer, in Studies on the Left, in 1962, if memory serves, the Madison, Wisconsin New Left journal, 1959-1967. Studies on the Left did have a few former YCL/CPUSA members like Weinstein.
On 7/21/05, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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>
> "Steven L. Robinson" wrote:
> >
> > Well, on the Supreme Court level, appointments of Democrat Presidents
> have
> > been decidedly mixed- Truman appointed the justices that upheld the
> > prosecutions during the McCarthy era for instance,
>
> I would make one correction to this; instead of "during the McCarthy
> era" write "during the Truman-McCarthy era" or, perhaps even more
> accurately, "during the Truman era." McCarthy actually came late to the
> Great Red Hunt, and his part in it was simply to reduce it to absurdity.
> The serious Red Hunt was almost entirely a creature of the Truman
> Administration.
>
> Carrol
>
> P.S. It is more or less hopeless to debate Nathan on this. All of his
> arguments essentially boil down to the princple, "We should vote
> Democratic because we should vote Democratic." Doug a few years ago
> asked him if there were any possible conditions under which he would not
> support the DP. If I remember correctly, Nathan responded with silence?
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