  Ok, after you've read the post below (which I created this morning PRIOR to reading urlLink this editorial by Paul Krugman ), then read urlLink this editorial by Paul Krugman , from which this quote comes: "In the original version of 'The Manchurian Candidate,' Senator John Iselin, whom Chinese agents are plotting to put in the White House, is a right-wing demagogue modeled on Senator Joseph McCarthy.
As Roger Ebert wrote, the plan is to 'use anticommunist hysteria as a cover for a communist takeover. ' The movie doesn't say what Iselin would have done if the plot had succeeded. Presumably, however, he wouldn't have openly turned traitor. Instead, he would have used his position to undermine national security, while posing as America's staunchest defender against communist evil. " Hello? 
