McCarthy did the same thing to homosexuals and tried to ruin their reputations through exposure.  It is interesting you mentioned Murrow.  It was Murrow using television that destroyed McCarthy's reputation.   It was the equal time offered by Murrow where McCarthy destroyed his own reputation.  Instead of addressing a single one of Murrow's substantive allegations, McCarthy attacked Murrow.  In some ways McCarthy was both made and destroyed by the new emerging medium of television.

I see prosecutorial abuse as more similar to McCarthy than I do regular politics.  It is in criminal investigations and prosecutions that reputations are truly ruined.   I'm much happier letting the voters decide what to make of HRC and her shenanigans at the State Dept.  I cringe when Trump says she ought to be in jail.  He might be right, but it is for a court to decide. We don't throw our political adversaries in jail if and when we get elected. That is not America.