We once had Mc Carthy and Nixon rooting the "travelers" out of Hollywood. J. Edgar Hoover probably kept them in line also. People seem to forget that Mc Carthy actually FOUND commies and exposed them. One I can remember is finding out that Lucy Ricardo was a card carrying communist. I didn't believe it at first, then she admitted it and they had a copy of her membership. She said it was a mistake and she didn't understand what it meant. Many in the limousine liberal set thought it was cool to be commie back then. After they got black balled and exposed, they stayed in line for many years until Viet Nam.
Nope. They were rooting them out of the federal government.