Tangential to the point you’re making, but in hindsight McCarthy was proven right about Communist infiltrators in the US by the Verona papers [1] which were dec

Tangential to the point you’re making, but in hindsight McCarthy was proven right about Communist infiltrators in the US by the Verona papers [1] which were declassified in 1995. If anything, he underestimated the number of conspirators. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Americans_in_the_Venona_papers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Americans_in_the_Ven...