War and depression inevitably lead to hate mongering and a need to lay blame. It was into this atmosphere that Senator Joseph McCarthy appeared on the American political scene. After nearly two decades of economic and social instability, beginning with the Great Depression, continued by the Second World War and topped off by the Korean War, McCarthy's statement that "The government is full of Communists," was precisely what the American public was searching for; a scapegoat.
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