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Throughout the early 1950’s, the nation was deeply engrossed in fears of a Communist takeover. At a time when America’s fears were at their very height, Joseph , a Republican Senator from Wisconsin pushed America’s fears to an extreme. As a ploy ....

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.... powers, he not only destroyed many people’s lives, but he also wronged the American public. To begin with, the type of person that Joe was must be considered. was a hard-line Republican who played along strict party lines. By all considerations, he was an extremist or a reactionary. By holding a piece of paper, and saying that the enemy who everyone feared was so close, diminished all thoughts that America was truly safe. The actual piece of paper was blank; had no writing on the paper at all. He knew that by telling the people of the U.S. that the enemy was so close, he could finally see a war erected against Communism. He simply used th ....