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What was the impact of "McCarthyism" and "The Red Scare" on American life?

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thousands of alleged communist sympathizers saw their lives disrupted. They were hounded by law enforcement, alienated from friends and family and fired from their jobs

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The word communism became synonymous with scary and something to fight even though the base idea of communism is arguably not a negative thing at all.

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