{"id":416,"date":"2013-10-24T11:03:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T15:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2013-10-24T23:35:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T03:35:36","slug":"mccarthyism-gop-means-not-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"McCarthyism & GOP: Means Not Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Reason<\/em> magazine has been the home of some Byzantine arguments over McCarthyism, from mocking would-be outrage<\/a> over contemporary examples, to resurrecting <\/a>it themselves when needed, to finding the redeeming facet in Old Joe’s controversial stance. Much<\/a> of this<\/a> emanated from Michael Moynihan, now departed to [formerly] Tina Brown’s Talk With Tweeting<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

So it was all the more exciting that Reason<\/em> led the razzing of an obscure Ohio political scion attempting to take on terrible Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n

John G. Taft is the grandson of Robert Taft, Ohio Senator, presidential candidate and the “Mr. Republican” of the 40s and 50s. From this storied past John G. cries out<\/a> against the Cruz\/Tea Party McCarthyism of the present day, recalling a golden era when politicians settled their differences with grace and tact.<\/p>\n

Jesse Walker calls bullshit<\/a>, resurrecting the money quote from Robert Taft’s period happily using McCarthy as a club.<\/p>\n

Taft assured the youngster that facts didn’t matter because the point was to:<\/p>\n

“keep talking, and if one case doesn’t work out, proceed with another.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Update!<\/strong> \u00c2\u00a0A better rundown of Bob Taft’s many crimes from Corey Robin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  \u00c2\u00a0 [& They Weren’t Too Fussy About The Means]\u00c2\u00a0   Reason magazine has been the home of some Byzantine arguments over McCarthyism, from mocking would-be outrage over contemporary examples, to resurrecting it themselves when needed, to finding the redeeming facet in Old Joe’s controversial stance. Much of this emanated from Michael Moynihan, now departed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,6,26,25,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism","category-joseph-mccarthy","category-mccarthyism","category-mccarthyism-of-the-left","category-new-mccarthyism","category-red-scare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}