Take the following as truth: But this bit of gratuitous groveling pales next to the sins of others--both those who remained Stalinists into the 1950s and those who did not just acquiesce in, but advocated, McCarthyism.
Then the following statement: "The current political climate is nowhere near as bad as that created by Stalinists and McCarthyists." is true, false, or inconclusive?