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Hey folks, we're in a moment right now when regardless of your politics, things can feel

unprecedented, the way power is being wielded, the way different parts of government are facing

off with each other, there is a lot to make sense of. But as always,

there are echoes in all this of the past, and the not so distant past. So today, I want to share

with you the first part in a series from our colleagues at American Experience. They launched a new

podcast this year called American Experience Presents,

and their first series is about a polarizing American figure who gathered and wielded power

in ways that at that time felt unprecedented. Here's American Experience Presents, Joseph McCarthy.

There are moments in American history when the country is afraid, when there is a threat

that is hard to define, and it's in those periods that demagogues arise.

I often think of the days I spent back on the farm

as a small boy, I had three brothers.

My mother used to raise chickens

to help pay the grocery bills and get her Christmas money.

And one of the jobs I had was to go down into these swamps and dig out the skunks that used to come up and kill her baby chickens.

You'll learn early in life that you don't go skunk hunting with striped trousers, a silk handkerchief and a top hat. You just can't do it.

Joe McCarthy is a person who, for what he thought were the right reasons, did all the wrong things.

Did you ever discuss any confidential material with a member of the Communist Party?

Answer that, yes or no.

And really inflicted a great deal of pain and anguish on individuals but on the society as a whole.

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