What I’m reminded of is how Hollywood became infiltrated with many card carrying Communists and fellow travellers, trying their best to influence the public. Of course, there were Communists in other areas of public life at that time, but thinking of this in particular. The outcry of evil “blacklisting” still reverberates, and yet it turned out later there were indeed real Communists, really funded by Stalin, in the US, and many in Hollywood.
Remember the crap Ann Coulter got when she wrote a book justifying Senator McCarthy’s committee? There’s a name that’s going to get a different treatment in history books if we have anything to do with it!