The podium poison Trump unleashed at the White House claiming vote counts were illegal in some states was shocking — and reminiscent of former Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communist crusade.
President Trump: Listen up! On June 9, 1954 a soft-spoken attorney named Joseph N. Welch unexpectedly took on the country’s most powerfully dangerous political bully and shut him down. The incident landed in the political history books. A few chosen words unleashed in a politically charged U.S. Senate room — caught 66 years ago on blurred black and white TV — ended the reign of Republican U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had lied and bullied his way to power; heaping the lives and careers of innocent people on his pyre of communist conspiracy. “Until this moment, senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness,” Welch said to McCarthy. “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?” Welch added. This time McCarthy was stunned into silence. Wild applause from an audience erupted. His malignant career was over; dying three years later censured, alcoholic and alone. It seems to me this nation needs to concentrate on unification and governance of the country from the outside in.
