DAVID OSHINSKY “In the Heart of the Heart of Conspiracy” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html
もしかして、米国のウヨのトレンドはマッカーシーかも知れない。
ジョセフ・マッカーシーは米国史の恥部と見做されて、米国の政治家は（どのようなスタンスであっても）誰もマッカーシーを讃えたりはしない。曰く、
ところが、最近M. Stanton Evansという保守派のジャーナリストがBlacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemiesという本を出して、（必ずしも肯定的な評価ばかりではないものの）右翼系のメディアの大きな注目を浴びているという――”For conservatives, the crazy uncle has finally left the attic.” その内容はというと、
Americans have learned to view him as the nation’s most dangerous modern demagogue. Pick up a dictionary and you’ll find the word “McCarthyism” defined as “the practice of publicizing accusations with insufficient regard to evidence” and “the use of unfair investigatory methods to suppress opposition.” To be labeled a McCarthyite is akin to being called a liar or a fraud. His loudest current admirer is Ann Coulter, a fact, I suspect, that even the senator would have found unsettling.
マッカーシーは「陰謀理論」な人たちにとっては大先輩であろう。日本でも〈女系天皇〉容認は日本共産党の陰謀だと言った人がいるらしいが*1、マッカーシーの「陰謀理論」は米国政府それ自体がアカ（蘇聯）に乗っ取られてるぞというもの。Oshinsky氏によると、Evansはその「陰謀理論」をさらに拡大しているという；
Part of Evans’s appeal is his boast to have unmasked the biases and distortions of previous McCarthy critics, this author included. He begins by describing a massive Russian spy operation in the United States, drawing his evidence from K.G.B. files as well as portions of the Venona project, a top-secret operation that traced Soviet intelligence traffic during World War II. Evans leaves the impression that he has uncovered fresh material, suspiciously overlooked until now. In fact, numerous scholars have used these documents to craft a thorough portrait of Communist espionage in Washington, though most believe that the worst of it was over by the late 1940s, when the F.B.I. began a crackdown on spying and a federal security program was put in place. If anything, they say, this evidence serves to reinforce the standard portrait of McCarthy as a bit player in the battle against Communist subversion, a latecomer who turned a vital crusade into a political mud bath.Evans disagrees, claiming that the Communist problem was very much alive in 1950, when the senator first made his charges of treason in high places. He judges McCarthy to be a skilled appraiser of loyalty and disloyalty and blames his errors, as well as those of his top aide, Roy Cohn, on “their proclivities for multitasking, and the fact that they carried so much information in their heads.” (Those old enough to remember this duo will find the imagery amusing.) Most important, Evans buys into the heart of the McCarthy conspiracy — the belief that leftist elements in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations created a foreign policy to advance the spread of world Communism.
面白いのは、ここで挙げられているのが、例えば反ネオリベな人たちの攻撃対象とも共通性が大きいということである。換言すれば、金融街やら大企業やらメディア（日本流にいうなら「マスゴミ」か）やらアイヴィ・リーグといったエリートというかエスタブリッシュメントが〈アカの手先〉として攻撃されているわけだ。勿論、これらを批判していけないわけではないのだが、http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080112/1200165144で呟いたことを繰り返せば、新自由主義或いはグローバリズム（さらにいえば資本主義）への批判は注意しないと、反エリート主義なりポピュリズムなりを梃子にして知らないうちに〈右〉と手を握ってしまうということである。
Evans not only endorses this conspiracy but actually expands it to include “the Eastern, internationalist faction” of the Republican Party, “with ties to Wall Street, large corporations, big Eastern media outlets and Ivy League establishment.” To Evans, the conspiracy passed from president to president — from Roosevelt and Truman to Eisenhower and even Nixon, a former McCarthyite, who “would fall off the teeter-totter, landing with Henry Kissinger in Red China, thereafter pushing on into the mists of détente with Moscow.”
ところで、最初に米国では誰もマッカーシーを讃えないといったが、彼の地元（ウィスコンシン州）は例外であるらしい；
なお、Oshinsky氏はマッカーシーの伝記（A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy）を書いている。
A few years ago, on assignment for this newspaper, I attended a memorial service for McCarthy at his grave site in Appleton, Wis. It’s an annual event, sponsored by a local group that hopes to turn the senator’s birthday into a national holiday and put his likeness on a postage stamp. Most of the celebrants were elderly, and several belonged to the far-right John Birch Society. “There aren’t a lot of us still around,” an 87-year-old McCarthy supporter told me. “When we die, who’ll be left to tell the truth about Joe?”
