Originally Posted by jayeff

Don't hold your breath waiting for the American public or US politicians to try to change the White House course. The communist witch-hunts of the 1950's were far more overtly disturbing, yet there was no significant public reaction and just 7 senators spoke out against McCarthy initially. Had McCarthy not made the mistake of taking on the army, his search for communist conspirators likely would have lasted much longer.

In fact, you could easily come to the conclusion that hardly anyone in Washington cared about all the abuses which took place, even after they came to light. Although Joe McCarthy drank himself to death soon afterward, Roy Cohn went on to become a leading attorney, with clients such as Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump: even the Archdiocese of New York.