Following the First Red Scare, President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order in 1947 to screen federal employees for association with organizations deemed “totalitarian, fascist, communist, or subversive”, or advocating “to alter the form of Government of the United States by unconstitutional means.”
Those days are so over.
Over a long time ago....oh yeah.
“Red scare”... it appears it wasn’t just a “scare”... and Joe McCarthy was indeed correct.