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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Thursday accused Republicans of holding up crucial assistance to Ukraine in order to protect the Koch brothers.There is a natural comparison between Reid's recent obsession with the Koch brothers with Joe McCarthy's obsession with communists — the communists were obviously a more serious threat than the Koch brothers, and did, in fact, constitute the biggest national security threat of their day, but they were not as big a threat as McCarthy made them out to be, and his standards of evidence in deciding that specific individuals were threats were not up to par. But the way Reid combines his paranoia with more general wackiness more calls to mind the character in the Manchurian Candidate that was invented to lampoon McCarthy than it does McCarthy himself. |
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