I think, at the end of the day, Joe McCarthy was right about communist infiltration. His approach to the problem was all wrong, but the basic idea appears to have been valid. We have been infiltrated by communists hiding under the veil of socialism or progressivism. First, they took over our schools and when they had brainwashed a few generations those kids grew up to run the media which brainwashed more people. Finally, these disciples of Marxism made their way into government and the press, or into big tech. It has been a long road getting here with conservative writers warning us all the way. Now tyranny is upon us and it remains to be seen what we will do about it.