They made McCarthy the face of the hunt for Communists because he was a Republican. They always start their articles, “McCarthy and the House UnAmerican Activities Committee”. McCarthy was a Senator.
No names ever mentioned concerning HUAC. You can guess why. Most of them were Democrats.
Martin Dies Jr., (D-Tex.), 1938–1944
Edward J. Hart (D-N.J.), 1945–1946
J. Parnell Thomas (R-N.J.), 1947–1948
John Stephens Wood (D-Ga.), 1949–1953
Harold H. Velde (R-Ill.), 1953–1955
Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.), 1955–1963
Edwin E. Willis (D-La.), 1963–1969
Richard Howard Ichord Jr. (D-Mo.), 1969–1975
I admit to snickering every time I hear or see a Leftist nincompoop make that fundamental error...
It is the same ridicule-inducing feeling I get when the Leftists use the “Three Fifths Compromise” to trumpet how racist the country was, never understanding that it was a compromise to weaken slaveholding states by reducing their representation in the House.