Democrats persuasively called Livingston's resignation a surrender to a developing sexual McCarthyism, portrayed Clinton as a fellow victim of this McCarthyism, and argued that Clinton should be spared expulsion as a first step toward ending the madness.

Does it follow that "Democrats said Clinton was a victim of McCarthyism."?
Available choices:
[a]. yes.
[b]. it is not possible to tell.
[c]. no.
[a].