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It is said that Senator Joseph Welch’s famous rebuke to Senator Joseph McCarthy—“At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”—was a turning point in the history of McCarthyism. Was it really? It was still in 1954. Did the public’s view of anti communism or the government’s tactics change? How?

by /u/balonkey in /r/AskHistorians

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