"Witch hunt" was always associated with Joseph McCarthy who was, of course, trying to do then what POTUS is trying to do now - eradicate the Communism which has, literally, taken over everything.
JMcC actually underestimated the vast volume of Communists which had already infiltrated everything in this Country.
Communists were "imported" from the Soviet Union, then chyna took it all over.
Spreading the Red Stain: The Communist Infiltration of Hollywood - The Epoch Times Pro-communist writers, actors, and filmmakers on the “Hollywood blacklist” of the 1940s and 1950s have in recent years gotten positive press. The blacklist itself is now often viewed as an example of government censorship, a product of the heavy-handed tactics of the now-defunct House Un-American Activities Committee, which aimed to ban and suppress communist movements in the United States… History shows many on the blacklist may have been placed there for good reason, since many were revealed to have worked as Soviet agents, and shaped pro-communist narratives through film.
A closer look reveals a circle of individuals…who were advocating for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government…. Ahead of World War II, many members of the Communist Party of Germany left for other parts of the world… were rejected as undesirables by other developed nations such as the United Kingdom, and so they headed for the United States. After their arrival, many writers and filmmakers joined the ranks of American Communist Party groups.
This gave rise to popular front movements supporting Soviet infiltration of art and culture venues and the penetration of political institutions in the mid-1930s… transform the entertainment industry into a tool to spread communist ideology and propaganda.
According to Michael Kazin, a history professor at Georgetown University, this grand-scale takeover scheme began in 1930s Hollywood with influential film industry leftists such as Yip Harburg, songwriter for “The Wizard of Oz” … Harburg was one of the leading pro-Soviet artists in Hollywood’s motion picture industry. Human Events reporter Allan H. Ryskind states that the House committee “uncovered over 200 Party members in Hollywood,” although Ryskind says his father, a screenwriter in Hollywood at the time, believes the actual number was closer to 300…
Arthur Eckstein writes that the Hollywood establishment has never lost its love affair with the Communist Party in both a political and cultural sense…
In a review of Ryskind’s “Hollywood Traitors,” Allan C. Brownfield writes: “… it is hard to understand how Communist writers who worked so hard for another nation and against their own country’s interests have become heroes to many liberals… archive.is/c30tD theepochtimes.com/spreading-the-red-stain-the-communist-infiltration-of-hollywood_2299892.html
>Reagan
Great actor. Big reason we have Communists whining about how President Trump "talks". RR's "VP" (handler) with the kindler & gentler crap put the dagger in masculinity/
manhood being acceptable. COWERING pussy, spineless politicians are the standard now because of these guys. Yeah, "Great Communicator" alright - no fukkin wonder with the pedowood GROOMING.
That crack cocaine in the '80s was something else too, wasn't it. Communist MLB was on the train, giving the Steve Howes & Darryl Strawberrys a zillion "strikes", slaps on wrists, & paid vacations at Smithers…