Senior relative, every single day, exclaims "What is happening? Why are they DOING this?!?".
Mention McCarthy and the first words are: "He ruined people!".
Keep asking to name just ONE such person. Of course they CAN'T.
Anyone who is not beyond convinced that PEDOWOOD and the entertainment industries (for STARTERS) haven't been Communist-controlled since forever, has to be TOO ADDICTED to their entertainers, including FauxiThinkReactionChat and FAKEBOOK, to barely function anymore.
So what do we know 67 years later? For one thing, that McCarthy actually underestimated the number of American Soviet spies working for the USSR in the FDR administration. It took a while, but in 1994 NSA and CIA released 190,000 formerly classified cablegrams they, and their predecessor agencies, intercepted from 1943 to 1980. The number of American Soviet agents identified from Venona has reached 500, more than double the 205 McCarthy predicted — as researchers have decrypted only ten percent of the documents thus far.
Due to the left-leaning U.S. media, Venona has been ignored. Fortunately, journalist Stanton Evans wrote "Blacklisted By History," (linked) relying on newly declassified FBI and CIA documents that reveal a sinister plot, but not by McCarthy. The person harmed by the so-called witch hunt was McCarthy himself. https://www.newsmax.com/BernieReeves/mccarthy-venona-project-blackmailed-by-history/2017/03/23/id/780440/