Demagogue Quotes

“Even more basic to McCarthy’s success, the president never challenged the senator’s meat-and-potatoes premises: that merely believing in communism was dangerous, and that Soviet subversion threatened the stability and safety of America.”
― Larry Tye, Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy

“It’s good to get away from Washington and back here in the United States.”
― Larry Tye, Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy

“It was deeply ironic that when McCarthy’s self-serving campaign against the Red Menace was at its height, Soviet penetration of the American government was at its lowest ebb for almost thirty years.”
― Larry Tye, Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy

“Do we have the manhood in the Senate to stand up to a challenge of that kind?” The”
― Larry Tye, Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy

“In McCarthy’s case, the correspondents’ reasons for their choice were given with considerable vigor. Some of them: ‘His record is reason enough to consider him the most ignorant and vicious member of the Senate.’ ‘As a Senator his disregard for personal rights and freedoms make him an extremely dangerous man.’ ‘A shrewd and dangerous exploiter of uninformed prejudice.’ ‘A demagogue who has introduced McCarthyism (the technique of the Big Lie) to split the country.’” Joe”
― Larry Tye, Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy