Professor Kaiser is quite right, by the time of McCarthy, communists had gone, changed, or been outed.
See The Haunted Wood, which spells it out nicely.
Of course, by then the Soviets had already long gotten everything they had wanted, more or less, from us, by internal influence:
they had gotten our support, over European objections, re Eastern Europe, (they had gotten Patton, through the OSS, if you tend to believe Target Patton, as I do; apparently Bill O'Reilly also did something which I haven't read; they had put a political short leash on Monty to intervene in Eastern Europe in 44 45, as he later complained...)
they had gotten the bomb through espionage, and even through our political cooperation, it seems (!)
they had gotten our help, and ideological support, in further dismantling the European empires (a real biggie, in my judgment),
and they, a foreign civilization, had gotten Eastern Europe and much of mitteleuropa.
They almost got an agrarianized Germany, thanks to FDR and Morgenthau and White, etc.
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