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Instigating this fear was Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy was a Republican senator from Wisconsin and was the leader behind the ethos of McCarthyism. The term was created in 1950 by Washington Post writer Herbert Block.
In the American Heritage Dictionary McCarthyism is defined as the political practice of publicizing accusations of disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence. Parallel state hunt makes McCarthyism look like child's play