Why was Senator McCarthy able to win recognition as a great fighter of communism without actually identifying any Communists?

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Sim W.
Apr 26, 2017

He fueled a national paranoia

Explanation:

The Wisconsin Senator McCarthy was able to be identified as an anti-communist fighter because there was a general fear of communists which made his personal paranoia credible. He was eventually excluded from American political life in 1953 and died five years later due to alcoholism.

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