User:Cullen328/sandbox/McCarthy

When I first started reading this thread, I thought that Kevin McCarthy (actor) must have been some actor famous in an Anglophone country other than the United States. But no. He was born in Seattle and had a good supporting actor role in a 1951 film. Then, he had a starring role in a low budget horror movie in 1956 that has become a bit of a cult classic. I am 70 years ago and was entirely unfamiliar with this actor until today. On the other hand, the California politician has met WP:NPOL for 20 years, and is at the very center of US politics as leader of the Republican caucus in the House of Representatives for the last eight years. If this is recentism, then Wikipedia itself is recentism. Centuries from now, people will be studying Trump's inner circle, including the person that Trump dubbed "my Kevin", just as we now study figures like Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, 250 years after they came to prominence. Personally, I do not like this man, but I want our readers to find his biography as easily as possible, as opposed to the biography of the star of the 1956 B movie called Invasion of the Body Snatchers.