The reason...is not because our only powerful potential enemy has sent men to invade
our shores... but rather because of the traitorous actions
of those who have been
treated so well by this Nation....
This is glaringly true in the State Department. There the bright young men who are
born with silver spoons in their mouths are the ones who have been
most traitorous
...
-Joseph McCarthy, speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950
In this excerpt, McCarthy is attempting to incite fear about -