Ideas and policy “have a tough time competing for headlines with demagogues [like McCarthy]… It is a sad commentary on our government when such a manifestly useless and spurious thing can divert our attention from all of the constructive work in which we could and should be engaged.”
President Dwight D. Eisenhower (on McCarthyism), March 9, 1954
More than half a century later, Glenn Beck shows some of us have learned painfully little.
