He was “fundamentally right” in the same sense that Trump is “fundamentally right” in saying that all Muslims should be banned from the US, or that I would be “fundamentally right” if I burned down your house to get rid of that pesky ant infestation. Perhaps there were some Communist sympathizers among the hundreds or thousands whose lives he ruined, but McCarthy couldn’t have cared less about catching them. He did what he did to further his own career, and Cohn helped him in a purely cynical grab for power.
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