And, regrettably, there's a Wisconsin connection.
This is Ron Johnson today.

This is Ron Johnson today.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said Tuesday that an informant has told Congress that a "secret society" was set up within the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice shortly after Donald Trump was elected president....We have to dig into it. This is not a distraction. Again, this is bias, potentially corruption, at the highest levels of the FBI.”Remind you of anyone?

Speaking before the Ohio County Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator McCarthy waved before his audience a piece of paper. According to the only published newspaper account of the speech, McCarthy said that, “I have here in my hand a list of 205 [State Department employees] that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.”