McCarthy was and always will be an American hero
I always meant to go back and dig into the McCarthy era and never did.
I think a lot of people knew intuitively that there was a communist conspiracy, but it seems that even back then the left was very good shaping the narrative.
I suspect that his endeavors were in hind-sight an all-or-nothing proposition, or should have been. IE: Win, or don’t do it. Him being unable to successfully reveal and uproot the depths of the communist infiltration of Hollywood, media, the education system, and government probably did more harm than good because they used him as a lightening rod in politics to vilify others by association and push weaker conservatives into disavowing.
Now we are stuck with the krypto marxists running our media and universities and well entrenched throughout the deep state and even though a lot of time has passed, they haven’t quite yet been able to pull off the overt coup d’etat. But I fear we are getting closer.