The point is that ....surprise....surprise it wasn't a loud mouthed republican but the Truman administration and the democrat party that was dedicated to uncovering communist infiltration into society. H'wood even helped out at first with a series called "I led three lives" and a Duke Wayne movie about HUAC investigators in Hawaii. . The Senate and the House committies had no power other than to subpoena suspected communists and the subpoenaed people had a 5th Amendment right not to answer questions. When democrats won the majority in congress midway into Bush's 2nd term the first thing on their agenda was a McCarthy like circus of subpoenas of professional Baseball players in a substance abuse investigation. Professional Baseball players were subject to social ridicule and they only thing democrats came up with was some poor Hall of Fame pitcher.