I don't know about the author of the article and was wrong to say she was a lemming for the left, but she might think she has pointed out a major flaw in Ann's book, but she hasn't.
I have read the book and McCarthy is used as an axample of how effective the left is on demonizing people who point out that they (The Left) don't have what it takes to defend America.
She uses the Venona Project to prove that McCarthy was correct about Alger Hiss and the other spies in the democratic party, and she uses what McCarthy went through to comapre how the democrats today claim everyone is questioning their patriotism whenever they are asked why they choose to support America's enemies over their own country.
She points out haw fast Jimmy Carter will rush to the defense of Castro, or any other third world dictator who is under the spotlight. My take from her book is that she is poving that Democrats can not be trusted with our National Security because they are liberals and liberals are unable to stand up for America.
I found her book to be spot on
She could have picked someone besides Joe McCarthy.
President Dwight Eisenhower thought McCarthy was a swashbuckling, grandstanding lunatic, for Christ's sake!
And, he was.
I've read plenty on McCarthy and, while he was right about Communists in the government, he cast his net too wide, and damaged a lot of innocent people.
I also question the sanity of ANYBODY who would defend the Waffen SS in 1952, seven years after they were proven to be the executioners of over 6 million European Jews, Poles, and others.