...is that there were, in fact, a lot of actual "witches": "The Venona Cables Proved American Elites Spied for the Communists. Liberals Are Still in Denial."
"Ah, American liberals! Marx love 'em! The most effective fifth column I ever saw. And still going strong, all these decades later."
A major problem is that Joe McCarthy was correct. But he was also a publicity whore, who saw anti-Communism as an issue to ride to glory. His ham fisted camera hogging discredited the cause and allowed actual Communists to embed in out government, bureaucracy, media, and entertainment sectors while pretending to be nothing more than "classical" liberals.
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