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Really an idiolog, but is more about himself. donald trump is a president, and mccarthy was only a senator. huge difference in power there. one other major difference. in the early 1950s you had margaret j. smith speaking out against him, and eisenhower working against him and one of the figures in my book, charles potter of michigan, elected to the senate and worked with joseph mccarthy on his subcommittee, until he saw what was going on in the machinations of mccarthy and later wrote a book called days of shame regretting what happened during that era. i wonder two things, where is the margaret j. smith today and what republican is going to write that book days of shame . you also get to something else. i m sitting here thinking that eisenhower really took his time. yes. and he hung back while a lot ....
And i think that s i submit that without much fear of contradiction. i also think, and, nicolle, you can answer this better than i can. it s certainly fine for us to get trump-ified about this. if president jeb bush. president marco rubio, john case i in the white house, probably would be coming from a list like this. exactly. the difference is there s no suggestion at this point that any one of them would have been under special counsel investigation by robert mueller looking for a supreme court nominee s positions on whether you can or cannot indict a sitting president. i mean i think that s the trumpian wrinkle, right? yeah. and totally legitimate, totally legitimate thing to raise. and they should. and you have some senators here who have a chance to become margaret j. smith, a profile in courage. bob corker should think about it. senator flake should think about it. senator mccain depending on his ....
Statements don t matter that much personally. so i m i ve been reading a lot of history lately about the 1950s. and we have as they say, history doesn t repeat itself, but it rhymes. and there was a moment in the 1950s and the late 40s when there was a republican senator, joe mccarthy right. and people were afraid of his supporters and he had a reputation for indecency and for telling lies, and many people in the republican party just sat back and then the democratic party i should also point out sat back and watched it happen. there were exceptions. in 1950, senator margaret j. smith of maine, a republican, gave her declaration of conscience on the senate floor, but generally speaking, most republicans were quiet until 1954. right. murrow didn t even take him on until 1954. in fact, i have just written ....