On 6.9.54, the legend of the venal Senator Joseph R. McCarthy took a hit that he never recovered from. The demagogic dragon was “finally slain,” as a commentator says in the below PBS clip.
In “Trump Is Unravelling,” a 12.7.22 Thomas B. Edsall essay in the N.Y. Times, Robert Erikson, a political scientist at Columbia, says the following:
