McCarthy is overly villainized by Hollywood and the far left that often throw his name around without actually even knowing much about it.
He was mostly right and that was proven when the Cold War ended and the Russians actually opened up records to us which proved that indeed some of the folks accused by McCarthy were what he claimed they were. Furthermore, there is the Venona project that became public and though overlooked by a left which simply wants to maintain their simple black and white world view also shows that he was mostly right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
But he also took it to far. People have rights (which he ignored) and they are allowed to have dissenting views even if those do not fit the contemporary world view. A Kangaroo justice system is just as wrong by the political right in the 1950s when McCarthy had his BS hearings etc. as they are today when the left has the upper hand and goes after folks for January 6 or wants to use the legal system to remove Trump from the ballot. In a Republic ruled by a Constitution and laws, it’s the means to the end which matters more than the end.
He was right about everything.
This is so true. McCarthy was a Senator. He was in charge of hearings in the Senate about alleged communist infiltration in the military and state department. It was a committee in the House that dealt with blacklisting Hollywood people.