Letter: Shades of McCarthyism in modern political war

Posted on October 17, 2025

The indictments of Letitia James and James Comey echo a chilling moment from the “Army-McCarthy Hearings” in 1954, when U.S. Army counsel Joseph N. Welch told Joseph McCarthy, “Until this moment, senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.”