“But anonymously posted accusations ought to have no place in any prosecution. For this is both a dangerous kind of precedent and out of keeping with the spirit of our age.”
It only took the #MeToo crowd about 1900 years to reverse this precedent.
I’ve sometimes observed that the communists weren’t so much offended by the concept of HUAC but only that it was being used against them and not being used by them to hammer their opponents.
Indeed at the time the Useful Idiots eagerly glossed over worse that their compatriots used elsewhere.
Now that the Left is so drenched in the influence of Cultural Marxism that it has become atmospheric to them (it its influence suddenly vanished from their attitudes would they recognize themselves?) we should expect no less from them than every man oppressing their own neighbors, where the masses of the self-described kind and enlightened bully anyone who dares step out of line with whatever the culture seems to be doing at the moment. The self-proclaimed individualists are so much so that you can hardly tell them apart anymore.