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Joseph McCarthy Joseph McCarthy Never has there been a senator who has made more of an impact upon American political affairs than Joseph McCarthy. His obsessive quest to find communists in the American society ruined the lives of many innocent American people- federal and state employees, movie stars, lawyers, union members, teachers and preachers. These people were accused of being communists without being given a valid chance to defend themselves, and as a result their reputations were soiled. The technique that McCarthy used to accuse his victims was simple. He made an accusation of disloyalty against the individual and then moved on to another case before the accused had a chance to respond and defend themselves. The senator, who caused this great hysteria throughout America, or the “Red Scare”, convinced the American public that there were Communists living among them, and he was the only force that could unmask them. If anyone dared disagree with his tactics then they themselves faced accusat! ions of being a communist. McCarthy won the general election for a senatorial position in 1946, but he soon began to irritate his older colleagues mccarthy, army, public, mccarthy’s, communists, being, american, people, klingaman, general, zeinert, themselves, state, soon, senate, secretary, promoted, political, out, investigations, hearings, find, been, anyone, against, 259, zwicker, while, welch, upon, tactics, subcommittee, stevens, signal, senator