Democrats suggest Cruz is engaging in McCarthyism by maligning Hagel's character with unsubstantiated claims and questions.
Few people these days regard McCarthyism as much more than an unfortunate blip in an otherwise decent society.
Just as McCarthyism began long before Joe McCarthy, it endured long after him.
They lambasted him as a supporter of McCarthyism, an enemy of trade unions and an uncritical admirer of big business.
Would Americans who surrendered so cravenly to McCarthyism, when only their jobs were at risk, really have defied a life-threatening tyranny?
Murrow's famous quote from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, used when he denounced McCarthyism in the 1950s, applies just as well today when looking at the fate of commercial broadcast television.
With McCarthyism still in the air, the country's preferred self-portrait resembled Norman Rockwell's covers for the Saturday Evening Post: rosy-cheeked families sitting down to a big, glistening Thanksgiving turkey.
He accused banks of blockading WikiLeaks, said that journalists have become ladder climbers and must be held to greater account, and said there was a "new McCarthyism" in the United States.
Mr Connerly's detractors have accused him of everything from McCarthyism to self-hatred to being a Ku Klux Klan sympathiser, but he seems untainted by the paranoid self-righteousness that is so common on the American right.
In some ways, this is the sad story of a scientist who probably wanted nothing more than to work peacefully in the lab and classroom, but was pushed one way and another by the great political currents of his era, from McCarthyism to Maoism.
It should, therefore, be no surprise that such groups have been aggressively vilifying the chairman as a "racist" and "bigot, " assailing his choice of witnesses (including an authentic Muslim reformer, Dr. Zuhdi Jasser) and denouncing the whole hearing enterprise as an example of "Islamophobia" and McCarthyism.
Wisconsin has a rich history of political trailblazing, for better and worse beginning with the Progressive Era of a century ago, extending through McCarthyism in the Fifties, the anti-Vietnam War bombing on the University of Wisconsin campus in 1970, and pioneering work in welfare reform and school choice in the Nineties.
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