The Legacy of McCarthyism

McCarthyism empowered the anti-anticominist tendency on the American left, which had been quite marginal prior to that. He created a kind of notion of anti-communism as being fascist among American liberals and gave security agencies more unaccountable power. The real legacy of McCarthyism relied on was opacity, reference to secret documents. And it was part of a larger culture. Here's something incredible about the Vanona transcripts. You know that Truman wasn't informed of them at the time. Why wasn't he informed of them? It comes down to bureaucratic turf war stuff. No, it wasn't the FBI Hoover who kept it from him. Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s