How we cite our quotes: (LastName.Line)
Quote #4
It certainly is a very alarming thing. (Cohn.57)
Here Welch forces Cohn to admit that it's really scary if all these Communists are really lurking around in government. He's backing him into a corner, dispelling with humor the fear that Cohn and McCarthy have used as a weapon.
Quote #5
Mr. Jenkins, the thing that I think we must remember is that this is a war which a brutalitarian force has won to a greater extent than any brutalitarian force has won a war in the history of the world before. For example, Christianity, which has been in existence for 2,000 years, has not converted, convinced nearly as many people as this Communist brutalitarianism has enslaved in 106 years, and they are not going to stop. I know that many of my good friends seem to feel that this is a sort of a game you can play, that you can talk about communism as though it is something 10,000 miles away. (McCarthy.106)
McCarthy is trying to defend himself against the knockout blow Welch has landed by changing the subject back to the threat of Communism. Fear-mongering is a tried and true tactic of demagogues. It's used to justify curtailing of civil liberties in times of real or imagined crisis. Not that Stalin's USSR hadn't been a brutal regime, but this is fear-mongering used as a diversion.