Editing Demagogue (section)

====Joseph McCarthy====
[[Joseph McCarthy]] was a [[U.S. Senator]] from the state of [[Wisconsin]] from 1947 to 1957.<ref>[[Richard Rovere|Rovere, Richard]], ''Senator Joe McCarthy'', Methuen Books (1959); reprinted by the University of California Press (1996). {{ISBN|0520204727}}.</ref><ref name=Wicker>[[Tom Wicker|Wicker, Tom]], ''Shooting Star: the Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy,'' Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2006) {{ISBN|015101082X}}<br />"Joe McCarthy may have been the most destructive demagogue in American history." p. 5<br />"McCarthy's Senate colleagues voted sixty-seven to twenty-two to censure him for his reckless accusations and fabrications." back cover</ref><ref>[[Haynes Johnson|Johnson, Haynes]], ''The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism,'' Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2006). {{ISBN|015603039X}}<br />"Joe McCarthy was a demagogue, but never a real leader of the people." p. 193<br />"McCarthy represented what Richard Hofstadter called 'the paranoid style of American politics.'" pp. 193–194<br />"While he never approached the importance of a Hitler or a Stalin, McCarthy resembled those demagogic dictators by also employing the techniques of the Big Lie." p. 194</ref> Though a poor orator,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hnn.us/articles/7603.html|publisher=History News Network|title=What Qualifies as Demagoguery?|date=October 19, 2004 |access-date=2009-03-24|archive-date=2013-07-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725015101/http://hnn.us/articles/7603.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Eisenhower Years|publisher=Infobase Publishing|author=Mayer, Michael|year=2007|quote=Unlike most demagogues, McCarthy did not give stem-winding, highly emotional speeches. Rather, he spoke in a monotone, even as he made his most outrageous charges. The delivery lent credence to his accusations, in that they seemed to be unemotional and therefore "factual."}}</ref> McCarthy rose to national prominence during the early 1950s by proclaiming that high places in the United States federal government and military were "infested" with [[communists]],<ref>{{cite book|title=Rhetoric and Civility: Human Development, Narcissism, and the Good Audience|publisher=SUNY Press|author=Harold Barrett|year=1991|isbn=978-0791404836|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=NJyRqw8JIJUC&pg=PA108 108]}}</ref> contributing to the [[Red Scare|second "Red Scare"]]. Ultimately, his inability to provide proof for his claims, as well as his public attacks on the [[United States Army]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Have_you_no_sense_of_decency.htm |title=Have You No Sense of Decency? |publisher=[[United States Senate]] |access-date=2017-01-07 |archive-date=2020-12-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203150027/https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Have_you_no_sense_of_decency.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> led to the [[Army–McCarthy hearings]] in 1954, which in turn led to his [[Censure in the United States|censure]] by the Senate and fall from popularity.<ref name=Wicker />
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