People like Senator Joseph McCarthy behaved like the worst communists at the time, and those who know history know what I'm talking about.
I lived through that history. During the peak of McCarthyism my parents joked about not sending my older brother to school wearing a red shirt lest we be labeled as communists.
Even in Canada we felt it. Communism and fascism are two sides of the same coin.
but the 60's I remember. Polls were dropping left and right via shootings galore.