The Neo-McCarthyist witchhunt of the Democratic establishment against progressives and leftists that won't follow the neoliberal agenda, like Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein, or any alter

Most Americans forget, or never learned, that McCarthyism actually started with the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1938. It was formed by Democrats for the purpose of persecuting leftists for their own political benefit.
Joseph McCarthy was just an opportunistic late-comer to the Red Scare who used an existing program of repression and turned it into an out-of-control monster.