Joe McCarthy’s first victim: How the senator brought down a La Follette

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Wed, 07/08/2020
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“ In 1911, Wisconsin elected America’s first Socialist to Congress, but by 1925 its Republican Party was so strong that Democrats held none of the 33 seats in the state senate and only one of 99 in the assembly. Even the La Follettes were Republicans for 28 of their 40 years holding that U.S. Senate seat.“