Original sentence: Critics of HUAC claim that any citizen who did not fit or abide the HUAC's ideologically narrow definition of "American" was so labeled – which, they claimed, contradicted, flouted, and voided the political rights provided for every citizen in the U.Some targets of investigation were created by way of anonymous and unfounded accusations of treason and subversion, during which time the term fellow traveler was applied as a political pejorative against many American citizens who did not outright condemn Communism.That seven-year period (1950–56) of moral panic and political witch hunts was the McCarthy Era  of right-wing political orthodoxy
Edited sentence: That seven-year period (1950–56) of moral panic and political witch hunts was the McCarthy Era  of right-wing political orthodoxy realised by way of anonymous and unfounded accusations of treason and subversion, during which time the political pejorative fellow traveler was applied against any American citizen who did not fit or abide the HUAC's ideologically narrow definition of "American" – which contradicted, flouted, and voided the political rights provided for every citizen in the U