was joseph mccarthy a republican
By the time McCarthy was censured by the Senate in December 1954 â not because of Joseph Welchâs eloquent pleas but because he had turned on the Republican leadership and the Eisenhower administration, who no longer needed him â Taft had been dead sixteen months. This was the man they once called âMr. Conservative,â who is now being held up as the paragon of moderation. To paraphrase Woody Allen: a moderate Republican is a right-wing reactionary plus time. Corey Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center.