You know, you are right, I remember Joe McCarthy fighting and exposing the very thing that seems to be overtaking the country now and it has been going on for years.
The Left organized such a propaganda campaign against McCarthy, who was pretty much correct in most of what he had found, that good Americans bought their dissimulation.
McCarthy’s personality was such that they knew how to spin their diversion and in that way they could get a away with it. What it shows is how malleable so much of the American public can be.
It’s taken 60 years for a lot of people to wake up. Many died before they understand how they were manipulated. Younger generations are unarmed and ignorant of history altogether thanks to the very same remakers of historical reality.
Dershowitz is brilliant, but he has been unable to cure that big blind spot syndrome, cognitive dissonance that comes from sitting for years anywhere in the environment of Harvard. Lot of people have acted inconsistently over the course of their lives. Dershowitz the Left are afraid of because they know that they really can’t control him, so they pull out all the stops to try to destroy him. And yet, and yet he voted for Obama. Simply madness.
A must read: Witness, by Whitaker Chambers, the well-written and totally factual memoir of what he went through to escape the Communist net in the U.S. and what he went through to speak up at the McCarthy hearings.