The dark side of communitarianism became readily visible in Senator Joseph McCarthy’s attacks on “subversives” in the early 1950s. Though the more tolerant Ike despised McCarthy and McCarthyism, even he sought to exclude “deviants” from government service.45 The Red Scare (and the contemporaneous Lavender Scare aimed at homosexuals) gradually waned, but concern that the balance had shifted too far toward “conformity” and community standards began to spread, especially among intellectuals.
