On June 9, 1954, during the televised Army-McCarthy hearings, Chief Army counsel Joseph Welch famously confronted Senator Joseph McCarthy: “Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. … Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” McCarthy was a forerunner to Donald Trump, attacking Americans by innuendo, slurs, and worse (like Trump but with less social media) as he gained attention and power by claiming the infiltration of communism in America, the so-called “Red...