Joseph McCarthy was shredded by the deep state because he underestimated the extent of American communism. America is still a communist nation, and keeps going further left.
Meta-lessons from McCarthy:
The war is asymmetrical
Must make it extremely costly to try to spin, discredit or humiliate anti-communism or to initiate direct meddling with us
The war is asymmetrical
Elites, though increasingly dumb and dumber, are paranoid about family-supremacist right-wing conspiracies by gun-toting small-business owners, and are on the alert for them
Joseph McCarthy was shredded by the deep state because he underestimated the extent of American communism. America is still a communist nation, and keeps going further left.
Meta-lessons from McCarthy: