Trump, a 'McCarthyist'?

The Washington Post delivered a column criticizing Donald Trump as a supporter of "McCarthyism" (a far-right anti-communism), which swept America in the 1950s, regarding his disrespectful comments against the parents of a fallen Muslim-American soldier .

Herold Pollack, a professor at Chicago University, said in his column posted on August 1st issue of the Washington Post pointing out that former Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin was kicked out of the political arena after making unfair accusations and unjust investigative techniques against communists. He criticized that Donald Trump had crossed the line.

　

The professor wrote that Trump being questioned by the father of a soldier killed in Iraq whether he has “ever read the United States Constitution” is similar to then-Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy being asked at a congressional hearing to root out communist sympathizers by then-Army counsel Joseph N. Welch, “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” McCarthy was impeached after being hit by the blow in alleged evasion of military service.

　

The Washington Post indicated that Trump is faced with a strongest protest ever by defaming the parents of a demolished soldier, though he had been championed by attacking privileged politicians so far.

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