EatTheRich
President
You don’t think the claim that the Democrats were soft on communism helped Eisenhower?Dude...there has never been widespread support for communism within the unions or the United States. Truman didn't like McCarthy because of the bullshit about hundreds of State Department employees being secret communists.
Eisenhower won 55% of the vote and 442 electoral college votes. He absolutely did not need help from a twit like McCarthy. The overwhelming vote for Eisenhower shows just how much anti-communism influenced the election.
Literally the leaderships of several unions were Communist Party members. The Communist Party (to its discredit) worked closely with the Roosevelt administration to help the U.S. win the war, and was a big part of the impetus behind the CCC, WPA, PWA, and minimum wage programs.