Yeah, but I hold that it doesn't really work any more. Back in the 1960s through the 1990s, the populace was a lot more naive. Now, a majority of Americans are on to the tactics.
But just the other day I heard VDH himself talking about how he was worried that somehow we were drifting back into a "McCarthy era" of sorts because of some event.
He used the McCarthy canard in its usual pseudocontext, i.e., that McCarthy was delusional, that he was just paranoid, and that there really was no significant Communist penetration of Hollywood and other institutions. Of course McCarthy was right back then.
Now, VDH knew better than to say that, but he still said it.