Wow, Monica Crowley is still a thing? Who is this person, you ask? After it was revealed that Crowley was a plagiarist, she stepped down from her appointment to a role in Trump's administration at the time. She plagiarized multiple times in her book and in the columns she wrote. Oh, and even in her dissertation. In short, she was a fake, so she would have fit right in with the Trump administration, so I'm not sure what happened there.
Crowley defended McCarthyism, so maybe she's just a dumb motherfucker, and she's OK with what Joe McCarthy did. That means that Little Monica is okay with McCarthy's methods of investigation to suppress opposition.
In 1950, McCarthy alleged that hundreds of Communists had infiltrated the State Department and other federal agencies, and that, of course, led to something that crossed the line. He had crossed many lines for normal people, but when McCarthy went after the Army, that was going too far with his hunt for communists in what was labeled the 'red scare.' McCarthy's public accusations and blacklisting of professionals over their alleged memberships in, or sympathy with the Communist Party USA, or on the basis of their refusal to assist Congressional investigations, was about as anti-American as it gets. Ten Hollywood screenwriters and directors were imprisoned, and hundreds more were blacklisted, and I know that makes MAGA salivate.
