‘Joe McCarthy Was Right’: Ex-Trump Official Praises McCarthyism At Faith & Freedom Coalition Conference

Former Fox News personality and Trump administration official, Monica Crowley, spoke Friday at the Faith & Freedom Coalition Conference in Washington, DC. Crowley was joined by the likes of Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) in addressing the annual event and used her time at the podium to defend infamous former Sen. Joe McCarthy (R-WI).

“By the way, Senator Joe McCarthy was right, and he was trying to ring the bell in the 1950s about Communist infiltration in our government and the same deep state that is now going after Donald Trump,” Crowley declared, adding:

The same deep state that removed Richard Nixon, the same deep state that went after Ronald Reagan and anybody else who stood up to them. That deep state became very insidious and in the 1950s smeared and attacked Joe McCarthy for speaking the truth about godless communism in very halls of our government. They grab control of our academia to indoctrinate all of our kids. And they started at the collegiate level, and now it’s down to kindergarten, preschool, where they are indoctrinating our children.

They grab control over the news media so that the propaganda continues to be perpetuated. And they grab control over the culture. Movies, television, music never used to be this way. In the 1950s, John Wayne during World War Two, Hollywood was producing patriotic films no longer. So the communists have been very successful in grabbing control over all of the aspects of American life and culture. They called it ‘the long march through the institutions.’

And now they have succeeded because they’ve been at it for so long. And now, to compound the problem before us. The battle has been joined by other dark and sinister forces, including the Chinese Communist Party, the globalists and the Islamists. And right now, they are all working together, at least for the moment. They’re working together to undermine and destroy the United States of America and by extension, the West as well.

Crowley’s fear-mongering remarks mirrored the so-called “Red Scare” and she appeared to call for the investigations and purges that followed under McCarthy – who was eventually censured by the U.S. Senate and died in disgrace. The term “McCarthyism” has since been widely used to refer to the political tactic of smearing political opponents with unsubstantiated allegations – particularly regarding their patriotism.

Trump will address the conference on Saturday.

Watch the clip above via C-SPAN.