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Culturebox would like to suggest a third possibility: I Married a Communist is about both McCarthyism and Bloom (there's a parody of her memoir in the novel that's hilarious)--but what it's really about is Flytrap.
The New Republic and others tried to redeem Sinatra for liberals, advertising his early support of civil rights, his assistance to black musicians before such help became fashionable, his opposition to McCarthyism, and his failed attempt to break the Hollywood Communist blacklist.)
A NYT Week in Review article examines the legitimacy of McCarthyism in light of information recently recovered from Soviet records.
Democrats persuasively called Livingston's resignation "a surrender to a developing sexual McCarthyism," portrayed Clinton as a fellow victim of this McCarthyism, and argued that Clinton should be spared expulsion as a first step toward ending the madness.
Or, if you prefer, sexual McCarthyism: the madness that prevails when private mistakes become daily fodder for public titillation, and are then used as political weapons to club the poor sinning bastards to death.