From newspaper opinion pieces to social media posts, the ghost of Sen. Joseph McCarthy roams the Washington, D.C. corridors and McCarthyism permeates the Democratic playbook, punctuated with the leadership’s incessant murmurings of “the Russians hacked the election.” As fallout of his investigation in the 1950s into Russian connections in the U.S., McCarthy was accused of conducting a “witch hunt” and was also indelibly linked to the Hollywood blacklist era.