McCarthyism and the Army

Joelle Monique: Roy Cohn wanted to wreck the army, but Americans today are broadly fond of the army. She says Eisenhower let McCarthy go on for years without serious opposition and he did a lot of horrible things because presidents are a bad thing to have. The only way to defeat a cancer like McCarthyism would have been for the most admired man in the country to stand up and call it what it was., she writes.