RE TRUMP'S REAL ANALOG RE THE STATE DEPARTMENT DEFENSE AND CHINA

"...Trump. of course, burst onto the national political scene in the summer of 2015 with his sensational claims about illegal immigrants, but his real similarity to McCarthy emerged when he had to respond to allegations that his campaign had worked with Russian intelligence during 2016.  Having "discovered" more than 200 non-existent Communists in the State Department, McCarthy treated all the opposition to him as evidence of how vast the Communist conspiracy was.  When he was challenged--for instance, by Senator Milward Tydings of Maryland, whose Foreign Relations subcommittee found his charges baseless later in 1950--he argued that his challengers were working for the Communists themselves--and he managed to secure Tydings's defeat, in his bid for a fifth Senate term, in November 1950, when Republicans made big gains again.  After that the Republican Party adopted McCarthy in much the same way that it has now adopted Trump.  With very rare exceptions, such as Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, Republicans decided that he was too big an asset to discard, and too much of a threat to oppose.   In 1952, when General Dwight Eisenhower won the Republican nomination, Ike planned during a campaign swing through Wisconsin to refer favorably to his old boss, General George Marshall, whom McCarthy had accused of treasonously handing China over to the Communists on the floor of the Senate.  His political handlers talked him into deleting it.  Richard Nixon, who had begun beating the Communist treachery drum well before McCarthy, regarded him as an important ally...." DK

Not that McCarthy was for anyone but McCarthy, but the story he told was largely true in many ways. 

Marshall was sympathetic to the Chinese communists, not to the nationalists, as were subordinates of his, some of them Soviet agents, as well as were operatives in various branches and departments, and in the press.

It was hardly only Marshall who delivered China to the communists single handedly. He had a whole lot of help. 

The State Department was scapegoated, but many other public and private entities were on board.

Try reading something like Stalin's Secret Agents.

In Denial is also choice. I have just started this.